You may not like this but China is fascist by definition.

LibsEatPoop [any] · edit-2 4 years ago

You may not like this but China is fascist by definition.

emizeko [they/them] · edit-2 4 years ago

yes the PLA answers to the party. it's called not getting couped like the USSR did.

Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Communist Party of the Soviet Union fall to pieces? An important reason is that in the ideological domain, competition is fierce! To completely repudiate the historical experience of the Soviet Union, to repudiate the history of the CPSU, to repudiate Lenin, to repudiate Stalin was to wreck chaos in Soviet ideology and engage in historical nihilism. It caused Party organizations at all levels to have barely any function whatsoever. It robbed the Party of its leadership of the military. In the end the CPSU—as great a Party as it was—scattered like a flock of frightened beasts! The Soviet Union—as great a country as it was—shattered into a dozen pieces. This is a lesson from the past!

—Xi Jinping, 2013

LibsEatPoop [any] · 4 years ago

That's a very good article. Thanks for linking it!

WontRead_YourReply [comrade/them,he/him] · edit-2 3 years ago

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GreenDream [none/use name] · 4 years ago

In recent years there have been a few commentators—both at home and abroad—that have asked if what modern China is doing can really be called socialism. Some have said we have engaged in a sort of “capital socialism;” others have been more straightforward, calling it “state capitalism” or “bureaucratic capitalism.” These labels are completely wrong. We say that socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism.

Definitely not state capitalism, folks. Nope! See, it's socialism because he says it's socialism.

invalidusernamelol [he/him] · 4 years ago

I don't know how much you've actually read, but the method is governance in China is not very far off from the models laid out by Marx and Lenin.

Both stated that the transitional state between capitalism and socialism would have a lot of similarities to capitalism, but with the important distinction that:

A) "From each according to their ability, to each according to their work" would be one of the guiding principles

B) The transitional state would take the form of the dictatorship of the proletariat, or a tool for class oppression directed at the bourgeoisie/capitalists*

C) The length of the transitional state is unknown and will last until it withers away due to not being needed anymore.

*Marx makes it clear that the oppression of the bourgeoisie is not the same as their extermination. The class will be liquidated, and the primary method for that is to abolish private property and bring it all under the control of the state. While they did reintroduce private ownership of factories in 2007, all land is still owned by the state and anyone using it for private reasons pays a ground rent to the state.

Most property in China is still either owned by the state or collectives.

ergot [comrade/them] · edit-2 4 years ago

State capitalism would be a step forward as compared with the present state of affairs in our Soviet Republic. If in approximately six months’ time state capitalism became established in our Republic, this would be a great success and a sure guarantee that within a year socialism will have gained a permanently firm hold and will have become invincible in this country. as my sibling commenter said, state capitalism is a stepping stone