Genuine question so please don’t hate on me. It seems to me that china now is more of a mixed market than a planned economy. Billionaires and class disparities definitely still exist in China and it seems like american communists almost romanticize china while ignoring obvious flaws in its system, only because they (rightfully) hate america and america hates China. China also supplies all of the world’s exploitative corporations with the vast majority of their goods. While China is probably better than the capitalist economies of the west, I don’t understand why a lot of people seem to hold it in the same regard as the USSR.
I definitely agree with this, and have held this viewpoint for a while now. As a Bangladeshi living in the US, it is ridiculous how a ‘first world’ country seems to face some of the same issues in the grand scheme of things that bangladeshis do back home. Me moving to the US is what radicalized me. And I do hope Bangladesh shifts it’s political position to be more pro-China because yes, China is better than the US and will definitely do more for us than the US ever has or ever will. It’s just the almost mythical regards to which western leftists hold china to that baffles me sometimes.
I think the mythologization is jokes for the most part, sort of an ironic inversion of the cartoon cutout commie citizen character that we get in western propaganda.
Yeah, it's weird. I think it's partially cuz of hopelessness of change in their country. But that hopelessness is often a giving up on the responsibility of taking action and organizing. China won't deliver us to global communism, that will take an international movement from people around the world.