• Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    A lot of leftists criticize China for not exporting revolution and working with capitalists. As much as we might not like it, that policy is a key part of why China can seemingly "do nothing" and come out ahead. China's development would not be nearly as smooth or advanced if it was constantly getting embroiled in foreign conflicts.

    • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      A lot of leftists criticize China for not exporting revolution and working with capitalists.

      Myself included circa like last year but when you put it like that, yeah. It's proven to be an extremely valuable strategy to sit and bide your time while the US commits farce after farce

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        In my mind, this is one of the lessons China learned from the fall of the USSR. The Soviet Union, for all the good it did, declared itself the champion of global revolution and made itself the enemy of all existing capitalist states. This led to it being completely encircled and besieged, contributing a lot to it's downfall.

        China assumes a position of neutrality in most matters and trades with everyone, integrating itself into international economic and political structures in a way that makes aligning against it and isolating it incredibly painful for the capitalists.

      • CommunistBear [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Can't build the productive forces with the push of a button :shrug-outta-hecks: