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  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    4 years ago

    Xi told a local specialty noodle business that the party will help them make more noodles, this is the end of communism.

    This is the kind of shit people who defend AOC say she gets but actually real. Like are you a baby, is this the first you have ever heard of China? Private businesses are part of the current system and path so obviously the idea is to do that as well as possible, same shit with the billionaires, if you are gonna do this kind of system they are gonna exist and preventing them from existing is prolonging your stay in this system at best, and sabotaging it at worst.

    If you wanna critique Chinas system do a real systemwide critique, don't look for basic statements like this and act like its a revelation that something like this has been said or done, its the lowest form of argumentation alongside quote mining.

      • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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        4 years ago

        With someone like AOC who doesn't write theory, cite theory or even belong to a group that has a theoretical basis, doing shit like this where you analyse statements is all you can really do. But China has several presidents worth of theory leading up to the modern day path and system that form a comprehensive base for why they are doing this and what risks there may be. But apparently they never thought "hmm businesses with a lot of money and capital may gain political power" and therefore they are dumb and wrong about everything.

    • Anarxist [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, and making rice noodles is obviously outside the commanding heights of the economy, which is what is under public ownership for their long-term NEP development model, so this isn't exactly a big revelation or anything to anyone who has been paying attention. State-owned enterprises still exist and compete with private enterprises, collective enterprises, and mixed enterprises outside the commanding heights in China, but a lot more private enterprise is allowed to exist in these non-strategic industries because it saves on monitoring and operational costs for the state and facilitates attracting more foreign capital and technology that China needs to develop. The NEP model certainly isn't immune to criticism, but if a developing country is going to use it as part of their development strategy, then it would be ridiculous for state officials to suggest that they want private enterprises to develop poorly and offer absolutely no support. They would just be sabotaging their own economy at that point. The headline would be more concerning if the state was instead privatizing actual public enterprises, which isn't the case. It just restates what we already know.