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US to send $375 million in military aid to Ukraine, including medium-range cluster bombs - Lemmy
lemmy.mlThe U.S. will send Ukraine an undisclosed number of medium-range cluster bombs
and an array of rockets, artillery and armored vehicles in a military aid
package totaling about $375 million, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Officials
expect an announcement on Wednesday, as global leaders meet at the U.N. General
Assembly,
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
[https://apnews.com/hub/volodymyr-zelenskyy] uses his appearance there to shore
up support and persuade the U.S. to allow his troops to use long-range weapon
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to strike deeper into Russia. The following day, Zelenskyy meets with President
Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington.
I agree. Each point could be an entire conversation in and of themselves. I am not trying to dismiss your concerns or the points you raise.
The class that's in power. Is the US Socialist because it has a state-run Post Office? No. The PRC is led by the CPC, which has a bottom-up and top-down organizational structure via the mass line. It has a market economy that it carefully manages, prunes, and allows to develop to the point of "harvesting," where it increases ownership.
Correct, it would be anti-dialectical to purely look at snapshots of ownership and not trajectories and class dynamics.
The practice of Whole Process People's Democracy is a large factor, but it's ultimately the sum of its parts. The CPC is a DotP, what separates it is who is in power, the bourgeoisie or the proletariat. We see the effects of this in privitization vs nationalization, large infrastructure projects or private contracts, an improvement in real wages and democracy for workers or restrictions.
So far, it appears that, especially in the last decade or so, these trends have been rapidly moving in the favor and direction of the Working Class, not the Bourgeoisie.
China is an incredibly complex system, and I won't say your concerns aren't valid. I recommend reading The Long Game and its Contradictions and China Has Billionaires.
I'll be honest, I've looked at China Has Billionaires before and didn't think it was impressive, but I'll try actually reading both, if only because I appreciate you being nice to me.
Could you expand on this point? Most of what you listed in that paragraph, and I think you'd even agree with me on this, belongs in the "this applies to Bismark" category of non-evidence. The part I quoted does not belong in that category, but I also am not familiar with worker democracy being on a positive trajectory in China and would consider that to be positive evidence.
Dessalines has a large compilation of Frequently asked questions, including an article on workplace democracy.