I came across this thoughtful response a while back, on Facebook of all places, and to this day it’s still one of the best intros to the “is China socialist?” question I’ve seen.— professional hog groomer (@bidetmarxman) January 25, 2022
I thought this was really well thought out actually
But for real, China is socialist. It's just in the lower stages of communism right now which no one in the party denies. Capital is actually really effective and building up productive forces and China was cheated out of a lot of their capital by imperialists. Takes a while to recover from a century of exploitation and extraction
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i am not capitalist nor socialist but a secret third thing
That's the joke lol
But for real, China is socialist. It's just in the lower stages of communism right now which no one in the party denies. Capital is actually really effective and building up productive forces and China was cheated out of a lot of their capital by imperialists. Takes a while to recover from a century of exploitation and extraction
Sorry, "secret third thing" is a popular meme on tumblr rn, I was just riffing
I thought you were making a "third way" joke lol
Or a fascist joke