How the hell it’s even “more tech based than Lenin’s model”? Lenin was great advocate of technological progress and tried to build and draw to party every even semi eligible technical personnel he could find, he just had to work with completely backwards country where technical education was solely in the hands of bourgeoisie.
“Lenin’s model” moved from semi-feudalism to spaceflight in 40 years, despite 3 huge destructive wars no less.
Lenin: “Communism = Soviet Power + Electrification of the Whole Country”
Western propaganda: “Lenin was against technology!”
Some excerpts from the speech where he famously says that phrase:
"Bring more engineers and agronomists to the fore, learn from them, keep an eye on their work, and turn our congresses and conferences, not into propaganda meetings but into bodies that will verify our economic achievements, bodies in which we can really learn the business of economic development. […]
Our Party program must not remain solely a program of the Party. It must become a program of our economic development […]. It must be supplemented with a second Party program, a plan of work aimed at restoring our entire economy and raising it to the level of up-to-date technical development. […]
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. […] and we shall see to it that the economic basis is transformed from a small-peasant basis into a large-scale industrial basis. Only when the country has been electrified, and industry, agriculture and transport have been placed on the technical basis of modern large-scale industry, only then shall we be fully victorious. […]
It should, however, be realized and remembered that we cannot carry out electrification with the illiterates we have. Our commission will endeavor to stamp out illiteracy- but that is not enough. […] Besides literacy, we need cultured, enlightened and educated working people; […] We must see to it that every factory and every electric power station becomes a center of enlightenment;"
VLADIMIR LENIN, REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS. DECEMBER 22, 1920
I think they are silly enough to not realize that high tech 100 years ago is not what is high tech now. If you truly abandon materialism this does make sense.
This also reminds me of the popular 90’s liberal mantra about “knowledge based economy” (used to justify deindustrialisation), as if the economy wasn’t ALWAYS based on knowldge ever since people learned how to make fire and tools.
wth is neocommunism even
googling it keeps giving me eurocommunism
It’s like communism, but with more spoon bending (this joke is immediately going to date me)
In North Korea, they told us there was no spoon, and if we disagreed they’d make us watch the Matrix sequels
Reminds me of when western “sinologists” throw around the term “neoconfucian”. Nonsense concepts that come from people who can only interact with a simulacra of the world.
America must scale up its efforts to ensure primacy on land, at sea, in the air, in cyberspace and in outer space sufficiently to deter any rivals.
Yes, America’s problem is definitely their paltry military spending. They must spend even more on the arms industry, that will fix all their problems. For freedom!
Also in outer space? Is America planning another Space Race? Despite their claims of victory, the last one really didn’t go that well for them.
They are already losing the current space race before it even officially started. Just look at China’s achievements in this field the last few years and compare it to fuckall that NASA has been doing. China has a new space station that will outlive the ISS which is fast approaching the end of its life span. Has the West been building any replacements? Of course not. They took decades to finish the James Webb space telescope, and i remember that being the “new hotness” in astrophysics back when i was in university and that is already many years ago, everyone was talking about it as if it was going to come online any minute now but by the time they got it up over a decade later it was already outdated.
NASA planing to use SpaceX’s Starship as the Human Landing System, has convinced me that China will step foot on the moon before Artemis III.
They aint reckoning with shit lmao
The article is all kinds of hilarious. My fav was this bit a the end:
Beijing’s steady military buildup—combined with its expansionist territorial claims and increased efforts to form partnerships with countries such as Russia and Iran—has major implications for the U.S. defense budget. America must scale up its efforts to ensure primacy on land, at sea, in the air, in cyberspace and in outer space sufficiently to deter any rivals.
Apparently, US plans to take on the combined power of Russia, China, and Iran militarily. The sheer hubris of that is just astounding.
While Xi Jinping likely spends little time reading Marx’s “Grundrisse” or debating the labor theory of value with his comrades
this is such a stupid mischaracterization. xi literally has a doctorate in marxism from tsinghua university, he’s definitely read more of marx than the author of this bullshit. this whole thing reeks of having zero understanding of marxism or leninism.
I’m pretty sure that nobody with any actual understanding of Marxism or Leninism would be let anywhere close to writing articles in western media.
