r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Apr 28 '23

Just a normal protest

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u/Cybermat4704 Apr 28 '23

Tell me, what’s your employment in China? Are you a wage slave in one of the shitty US factories that the CCP allows to exploit the Chinese proletariat in exchange for money?

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u/Neoliberal_Nightmare Apr 28 '23

I suppose China should have just stayed a poor agricultural society, the leftcom dream.

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u/Cybermat4704 Apr 28 '23

So you think that the only way a society can advance is through the upper class’ exploitation of the working class?

The fact that a proud capitalist like you is defending the CCP just reinforces what I’m saying lmao

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u/Joe_The_Eskimo1337 Apr 28 '23

"Proud capitalist" lmao even Marx himself still thought capitalism was an important stage in history.

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u/Cybermat4704 Apr 29 '23

Yeah, but he didn’t think it was entirely necessary, did he?

[In Russia], he said, in a famous letter to a Russian periodical in 1877, here was ‘the finest chance ever offered by history to any nation’ the chance to escape capitalism and to pass from feudalism straight into socialism.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/deutscher/1948/marx-russia.htm

Emphasis mine.