Depends, and honestly hard to get a really broad picture of what everyone's feeling.

Everyone in urban China lives in a 'community' organized by local government. Some are good at their jobs and some are bad. In communities like mine where testing has been very well organized and we've been provided with good food rations, everyone seems pretty mellow, but I've heard of some discontent in communities where food provisions have been bad or non-existent (by discontent, I mean old people complaining at the management in the community, haven't seen or heard of any real protests that have been suggesting in the media).

I think everyone's a little irritated at the Shanghai government as a whole for preparing poorly and responding slowly, but Beijing's taking over the response now so hopefully it'll be resolved quickly.

Who's asking?

If they say anything other than black bean Lao Gan Ma I'm becoming a neoliberal.

Not shthrow.

Not sure if this is the case everywhere since testing is partially organized by your local community. For me a temporary testing site is setup in the community/compound and households are tested in batches to avoid crowding.

By law yes. But gig workers(I.E. Taxi driver, food delivery or just delivery in general) are losing most of their income since they can't work.

The classic one with beans and oil. Supposedly there should be minced beef in it but I can never taste any.

I refuse to confirm or deny.

Not shthrow, but can answer your question.

You fill your personal info into an web app and it generates a QR code. The code is scanned during testing. Results can be viewed on the app.

No official words on what happens to people who have tested positive. The policy seems to be changing all the time. It used mandatory quarantine in hospital/quarantine center but I've been hearing about asymptomatic cases quarantined at home(Not sure if true or not). What is certain is additional lockdown and testing for a certain radius around you. (Used to include contact tracing, but the city's been on lockdown for half a month there really isn't any movement to be traced now)

I got my results via one of the centralized apps.

As far as I know, if you test positive right now, you'll be taken to a big quarantine center where you'll stay until you can test negative twice. Like AlyxMS said, the policies are all over the place - I also heard talk about letting asymptomatic cases being allowed to quarantine at home but since then all the talk has been about the big centralized quarantine halls.

If you're interested, there was a foreign journalist called Emma Leaning I think who tested positive and was tweeting about her experience in centralized quarantine.

What're you doing up so early?

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I mean, there's multiple camps on this (ultimately semantic) debate, right? And which position you take has less to do with reality and more to do with your politics.

There's the marx-against-marxists people who'd point out that Marx defined the DoTP as a phase of capitalism in the Gothakritique.

Then there's the Leninists who define the DoTP as the lower phase of socialism.

There's the immediatists and communizers who believe that China is capitalist because the MoP aren't in the control of the working class "to do communism you have to do communism."

There's the trots who believe that China isn't internationalist enough.

There's the maoists who believe that China's liberal reforms were revisionist.

There's the anarchists who don't care if China's socialist because it isn't trying to do away with the state, but often opportunistically say it's not socialist.

But ultimately, these are more reflections of your own politics rather than what China is, which is a capitalist mixed economy managed by an ML party, to put it as neutrally as possible.

The more interesting questions are "what roles does China play in the world system?" "How can western leftists combat empire?" "When is China an ally (for example in Bolivia)" "When is China an enemy? (for example in the Philippines)." Because ultimately you can only act from the space and position of your own body, and no state is going to be any one thing.

The party exerts inordinate power over businesses, forcing technology transfer from foreign businesses, nationalizing industries on a regular basis to be run by the party, creating and favoring co-op models, etc. It also centrally plans large portions of the economy and development, even with Deng's reforms, like the "ghost cities" that actually do fill up, the massive mass transit infrastructure development, the elimination of absolute poverty through providing public housing, job training, etc based on sending out party cadres to assess needs and problems in local communities. It is moving increasingly in these directions.

Whether a country is socialist is a distracting question without a lot of payoff when it comes down to brass tacks, as there are so many aspects of society that you could call more or less socialist during any DOTP-focused process. Following a Marx-ish process, you should expect to see aspects of capitalism all over the place. This makes answering the question "hey is that country socialist?" hard to even define. Is it socialist if there are still landlords? How about a petty bourgeois owner class? Private property in any sense? Nobody actually has (nor should) have concrete definitions that make any sense. Instead, they are kept general. Does the party represent and respond to the workers against capitalist class interests? Is the party dominant over the capitalist class? Per Marx, that means you're probably looking at a DOTP and struggling through a socialist process. And then people will argue endlessly about whether the party really represents the workers, etc etc.

Rather than asking whether China is socialist, it is more useful to ask whether they are engaging in a sustainable socialist project, and the resounding answer there is yes.

The party has never claimed of having achieved a primarily socialist economy or not utilizing capitalism as a mode of production . They claim to have just entered the primary stage of socialism as a historical and developmentall process utilizing state capitalism and market forces largely And under the control of the party to achieve prerequisite to get to the next step levels of development, infrastructure And technology,as well as superiority against western capital in order . And that's not some dengist make up theory, it's a process and stage analysis outlined by Mao himself.

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:biden-troll: but that’s communism, jack! we can’t do that in America, people are too free! :biden-fall: