Struggle session. How the fuck is a country with billionaires legitimately Communist? I’m not a chud trying to start shit. I went along with most of the apologetics while living in the US, but I’m in HCMC now, and if this is Communism we’re living in a bizzaro world. Inequality is rampant. I lived in DC for two years and never saw a Maybach, but here I see them daily. Not to mention that there’s a 150% luxury tax on imports like that. Meanwhile, I see people digging through garbage looking for scraps to feed themselves. There’s no socialized medicine or government provided housing. I’ll admit I’m ignorant to theory, but if the theory can somehow excuse this shit, it must be more complicated than quantum physics. Not that it’s even close to the degradation the poor experience in the US (especially DC). There are no tent cities here, but the government doesn’t really do shit for the people as far as a I can tell. I imagine it’s the same in China but that’s pure speculation.
China is a capitalist country. There's your answer.
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China is a capitalist country managed by Marxists
All countries are to some degree capitalist when capitalism is still the dominant global economic mode. Places like DPRK are probably the least capitalist, but even there they still rely on trade with China and have a domestic black market that is regulated by the party.
The process of socialism is reshaping the mode of production by resolving of capitalist contradictions. In many places, resource independence is impossible due to centuries of capitalist exploitation and resource extraction that destroyed the independent social order. Just look around you and see where everything is made. Almost nothing is made entirely in one place.
The positive of China is that they offer an alternative to American financial hegemony. By providing that alternative, they make it easier for nations to break out of the cycle of exploitation perpetuated by the West. They aren't perfect, but they're significantly better to deal with than America.
I agree, actually. This is why capitalism will never truly be destroyed until the entire world is socialist. Only then can we begin to bring about full communism.
China becoming a socialist alternative to American Capitalist hegemony is very good. Even if they aren't whatever your definition of pure socialist is, they aren't America. That pressure is what allowed for the development of revolutions all around the world during the USSRs lifetime.
Revolutionary states that disrupt resource extraction necessary for maintaining capitalist profits is a vital step in the process of global liberation.