I've heard it phrased several ways, all of which are a little ludicrous:
The Chinese public is too brainwashed to know what socialism is
The Chinese government pretends to be socialist and that's good enough for people living in cities, but people in rural areas actually want to revolt (but don't?)
China is so backwards and evil they rewrote the meaning of what socialism is, and the public is too brainwashed to know the difference
Inevitable comparison to the Nazis being "national socialists"
Ultras and liberals don't come at this from the same angle. Ultras believe socialism only exists when value has been completely removed from the economy. Liberals just use racism and say there's no way China can be socialist because only white people can do that correctly, like they'll point to Sweden and Norway or whatever.
Yep. It always goes back to western chauvinism. They'd rather instead that they are smarter than the 1.4 billion people in China and that those people are a inscrutable orientals than they would like to admit that maybe China is successful socialism.
I've heard it phrased several ways, all of which are a little ludicrous:
Ultras and liberals don't come at this from the same angle. Ultras believe socialism only exists when value has been completely removed from the economy. Liberals just use racism and say there's no way China can be socialist because only white people can do that correctly, like they'll point to Sweden and Norway or whatever.
Yep. It always goes back to western chauvinism. They'd rather instead that they are smarter than the 1.4 billion people in China and that those people are a inscrutable orientals than they would like to admit that maybe China is successful socialism.