This is a serious question, I want to understand your views. I know very little about the Chinese system, but from what I know it doesn’t seem to be very communist at all, but rather a capitalist state to rival the US. Why do you all defend it so viciously?

  • Makan ☭ CPUSA
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    04 years ago

    It’s AES (Actually Existing Socialism) like Vietnam and Laos. Therefore, I defend it.

    Are you a communist?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      24 years ago

      Yes. I’ve been more interested in Russia and Cuba though, so I don’t know much in terms of Chinese communism, but I’m interested in the conflict between leftists who either hate or love China.
      So far, I’ve been exposed more to the former than the latter, so I’ve been leaning more that way, but I obviously don’t want to commit to either view without seeing both sides’ arguments.

      • Makan ☭ CPUSA
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        24 years ago

        The whole problem arises from the misconception that “markets” or “market mechanisms” are anti-socialist or non-socialist or that they are intrinsically capitalist. Yet the replication of a market for socialism is just that: using the same mechanics to boost productivity. In addition: Vietnam and Laos have done the same thing. And China has neighborhood committees, unions, and cooperatives that work with the government. I would suggest watching Bay Area415’s video on the subject.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLDV9A4JNJg&t=1s

          • Makan ☭ CPUSA
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            24 years ago

            The problem is people have read more Maoist theory than they have Deng Xiaoping Thought or Xi Jinping Thought.

              • @[email protected]
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                54 years ago

                You admit your stupidity. You call it garbage, but also admit to never having read it.

                That is un-critical, un marxist.

                No investigation, no right to comment.

                • @[email protected]
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                  511 months ago

                  It’s hilarious how these so called “Maoists” basically do everything that Mao was against. Nothing says “dialectical” quite like worshiping a guy instead of actually reading any theory he wrote and only reading “interpretations” of what he wrote like he was some kind of prophet.