lemm.ee

-1 points

1 year ago

China is in fact an excellent example of a socialist country. Here’s a detailed explanation for you that’s well sourced and referenced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT7Th2aV0wM

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Stovetop@lemmy.ml

0 points

1 year ago

I’m going to level with you, I don’t have time to watch an hour long video for a topic that is likely just government-approved talking points.

In practice, I just don’t see any difference in the way the mega rich in China control society, just as they do in the rest of the western world. There is too much aesthetic reverence for the West in the upper eschelons of Chinese society.

It is just as dystopic as the West with the way workers are used as fodder by megacorps with no regard for their well-being. Any country with such widespread income inequality cannot call itself a socialist success story.

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4 points

1 year ago

You used a lot of words to say that you don’t actually know anything about China and are unwilling to educate yourself. I guess just keep on believing your chauvinist fantasies about a country you know nothing about.

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Stovetop@lemmy.ml

-1 points

1 year ago

My man, I lived in China. You don’t have to sell me this bullshit.

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2 points

1 year ago

Ah yes good old trust me bro, but even if you did it’s pretty clear that plenty of people living in China disagree with you. Plenty of people live in US and can’t define what capitalism or socialism is either. What makes you an authority?

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Stovetop@lemmy.ml

-1 points

1 year ago

You’re right. A lot of people in China would probably disagree with me. But a lot of people in China lack the basic critical thinking skills to even question their circumstances, because secondary schools (if you even have the means to attend one) don’t like students who ask too many questions.

A lot of people in the US would also disagree with me politically, because they think they were chosen by Jesus to oppress brown people and spread glorious capitalism around the world. But that doesn’t make them right either.

I am a Marxist. I’ve done my homework. What do you want me to do, start quoting Zizek or Gramsci to pass your shitty litmus test?

China is an experiment in socialism gone awry, because like the rest of the world, those with power lust over capital. I lived in a T3 city in China where things were relatively quiet, but flew out to visit a friend way down in Shenzhen periodically. It’s hard to see billionaire kids racing their Ferraris down the street there while the poor masses look down from the windows of their destitute coffin house apartments and think that this is somehow a socialist success story.

China is as capital-driven as any other world power. The government just likes to participate in it a bit more directly.

But sure, you’re the expert, not me, so I’m sure this is all just capitalist propaganda intended to denounce great Mao zhuxi and sabotage the workers’ revolution.

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0 points

1 year ago

That’s some racist shit buddy. People in China lack basic critical skills to question their circumstances, it takes a white savior to tell them what’s up. Do you even listen to yourself? You’d not a Marxist, you’re a racist.

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