The whole video was pointless. There was barely any new information or insight. Of course, China has a market economy that is a mix of SOEs and private companies - everyone knows that.
The more interesting question is whether China, specifically the CPC, is developing socialism or not. But OP just sidesteps that question and calls it irrelevant.
"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence." - Some dumb asshole.
It's frustrating how common this mindset is even among "socialist" U.S.icans.
"Yes, my take is CIA left-targeting propaganda to a T and only furthers the rising popular consent for a new cold war, but did you know that China isn't actually always 100% perfect? I can't support any country that doesn't meet my own idealized moral standards, even if it is the biggest roadblock to U.S. imperialism in existence!"
I know a lot of people like to criticize China on the basis that one of their billionaires might not be self-made or their guantano bay is better than ours or w/e, but I'm more concerned with whether or not they are exporting ideology.
Is China doing enough to inform their international comrades across the globe that there can be an alternative to capitalism?
This article covers why they don't export revolution
There's a reason why the only Communist Parties that survived to this day are parties that came into power without outside support. Even Vietnam's Communist Party was going to win by a landslide electorally before the U.S intervened.
The revolutions propped kept afloat by the Soviet Union often lacked a Proletariat class organized and committed enough to Socialism on its own and ended up collapsing under their own weight. Nevermind that the Soviets (and by extension China) could never know what models of socialism would succeed in those countries. Remember that Stalin preferred the KMT.
But more importantly exporting revolution creates enough consent on its own for ostensibly unaligned countries to participate in the encirclement of the country exporting it.
It seems like a hard sell right now. Hey, we've got an alternative to capitalism. In it, we allow individuals to amass capital and steal surplus value from their employees. You should try it out!!
What I really mean, is not "pro China" propaganda, and also not "pro socialism with Chinese characteristics" propaganda, but anti-capitalist, pro-worker, and pro-revolutionary propaganda tailored to target countries. Is China doing enough in this category?
I'm certainly no expert but from what I can tell China is not trying to spread any ideological propaganda. I think the belt and road initiative may be pretty effective at spreading positive sentiment towards China and against the US if they're able to help industrialize and enrich some nations, but the last time I was in China it seemed pretty identical to most other developing nations where capitalist reality is a brutal grind that consumes the lives of the proletariat for the benefit of wealthy elites.
Is China doing enough to inform their international comrades across the globe that there can be an alternative to capitalism?
I think right now it’s less about informing others there can be an alternative to capitalism, and more about informing others there can be an alternative to US hegemony. They need to be in a position where they can be completely free of US efforts to contain them first and foremost. They aren’t quite there yet, but BRI and other diplomatic efforts are definitely helping to reach that goal.
Please don't drive traffic to such a shitty channel. New YT channel 1 month old already spewing anti-China shit? What are the odds it is NOT an op?
Their previous video is "Hakim is wrong about the calculation problem"? I would easily bet money this is not a legitimate/organic channel.
TBH, the thumbnails had me fooled - they look pretty professional. Plus they have a logo, a nice name etc. I got clickbaited into thinking they were a good creator.
His community page says this channel is rebranded so who knows at this point, looks like shitty breadtube at the very least. I looked at his channel again, the Hakim video is just too much nonsense for me to watch but the description reads "An analysis of his argument is provided, which is then responded to by referencing the works of Hayek and Mises."
This guy is not a socialist at the very least, you wouldn't go that far to try debuk some random Marxist critique of capitalism(ECP is shit not even chuds care or know about at this point) by literally citing our enemies. Also shitty comment section gives a clue about the target audience.
ten seconds in, asserts that Maoists think China is socialist lol.
"State owned enterprises operate for profit, so they are identical to other capitalist ventures except in regards to who owns the firms"
Isn't "who owns the means of production" the entire basis of Marxist analysis?
Openly acknowledges that he is ignoring the benefits of the massive expansion of the means of production
"the commodity form can only exist in the capitalist mode of production" :galaxy-brain:
"we can now perform an analysis of the Chinese Economy..." with only nine minutes left in the video
Just asserts that workers have no control over the state run industries with zero evidence or investigation.
I'm not gonna watch the next eight minutes because I have better things to do.
I’m glad I’m not the only one here who thinks this YouTube account is sus… Relatively new account with low subscriber number making professional looking videos right away is one thing that seems off.
Another thing is the branding. Most new leftist creators would probably adopt some unique and memorable persona/identity they feel attached to, like LENIN_LOVER69 or something, and not a generic label that vaguely identifies some group. Calling your brand new channel “New American Left” reminds me of political PAC branding in that they’re falsely claiming to represent a larger group or movement, like “Americans for a Better Future”, as an example.
Also, of course, given that anti-China propaganda is in full swing, I can’t help but view any non-nuanced criticism like this as suspicious, especially given their (seemingly) surface level understanding of leftist theory and politics.
