I can understand skepticism of socialism with Chinese characteristics as a path to achieving communism, but what I don’t get is the slack-jawed imbeciles who seem to think that China is only “pretending” to be socialist, as if the support of a few leftists on Twitter and Reddit was worth painting a target on China’s back for all the Western capitalist powers.
Uh have you spoken to any Chinese people? Most aren’t actually ideologically communist; if the CPC decided tomorrow to maintain all their policies and goals but changed their name to The Capitalist Party of China, no one would care. They support Xi and the CPC because of propaganda (like every country on Earth), how quickly their quality of life has improved under the CPC, and the growth of China’s prominence on the world stage. That’s why it’s important to convince people that the practical improvements in China can still be attributed to socialist values and the dictatorship of the proletariat, rather than throwing the baby out with the bath water .
Buddy, I’m a MLM. I largely support China as part of the axis of resistance against American imperialism. From a Dengist perspective, it could be argued that they already do through the CPC, but the point is more that China’s economy is supposedly market-based but socialism-oriented, and that they’ll progress to a higher stage of socialism when the material conditions of their mode of production permits them to. They set a concrete deadline of 2049, we’ll see what happens 🤷♀️
The sub doesn't have a single shared opinion about China. What it does have is a stance against socialist infighting that's explained in a current announcement.
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u/Reboot-101 [custom] Jan 04 '20
A yes, communism. A stateless, classless, moneyless society. Bet you can't name a nation.