China is devastated. Comrade Xi has called for an immediate dismissal of the government upon hearing that some random dude on western internet has dissed them. The red army has already vowed to disband and follow the will of the uneducated western influencer bros in Langley.
No idea who this is.
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Good thing that a western anglo has figured out that China needs a cultural revolution while being detached enough from the culture that the first things to come to mind when thinking of China are cities and trains. Now we just need to relay this to NED so they can forward it to their sleeper cells in China.
Zhang Chunqiao wasn’t a western anglo and said this:
“Although the Cultural Revolution launched and led by Chairman Mao failed, its spirit and principles will last forever. If the ruling Communist Party does not seriously solve the problem of degeneration and deterioration, becomes a privileged class, separates itself from the broad masses of the people, and is high above them, acting like a master, then sooner or later the people will follow Chairman Mao’s teachings and rise up again to revolutionize and overthrow the bourgeoisie in the Party.”
What’s your point?
people in this community say only westerners question China’s position as socialist, when in actually, people from the East also question how socialist is China. There are multiple Asian communist parties backing this opinion and even former CPC cadres, like Zhang.
That was never my assertion though. I just insinuated that this guy and people like him don’t have the requisite knowledge and experience to decide whether China needs a cultural revolution or not. That he apparently reached the same conclusion as Zhang is irrelevant.
Zhang had that knowledge and experience (sadly passed away in 2005, after serving 22 years in a Dengist dungeon). If this guy is reaching a similar conclusion to an experienced cadre like Zhang, then perhaps, he’s doing a good analysis on this specific topic.
There isn’t any analysis though. He just used state capitalist as a thought terminating cliche. Maybe he knows more than he is letting on considering it is a casual reply to a tiktok comment but I don’t have high hopes for it.
Unironic Maoist on here is hilarious.
not as hilarious as this one: https://x.com/ChnAmbXIAO/status/1928093403612319932
State capitalism - isn’t that literally how China defines it’s own system? At least according to Chinese economists quoted on wikipedia?
Edit: oops, “socialist market economy” according to wikipedia, but some Chinese economist call it “state capitalism”, e.g. this Chinese professor that is connected to various Chinese think tanks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_Zhiyuan.
Edit2: I don’t know this matter very well, but Cui Zhiyuan was criticizing sweeping privatization ~round 2005 (sauce: https://web.archive.org/web/20071214191511/http://www.greenleft.org.au/2005/619/35194), so I instantly like the guy. And he thinks China is not ML enough, so extra kisses.
Yes, they call it socialist market economy and they follow Socialism with Chinese Characteristics officially. https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Socialist_market_economy. Keep in mind this is the translation from a term originally not in English, and that to them this means a bunch of things. It’s like using ‘theory’ as a layperson vs a scientist. Two different meanings that need proper contextualizing and explaining to get how it’s being used.
Even ‘state capitalism’ might mean something very different to China than it does outside, even as they use the term in English.
The link above is a bit of a read that will never be finished but it does have references and explains it.
Regarding privatization yes, China in 2005 was very different from China today. Even more so than western countries were in the same time period. In 2008 Beijing was covered in smog, ten years later it has some of the cleanest air you can get in a city this size. But it’s a big country with understandably a lot of different points of view. Economists can be wrong too, what matters is consensus.
“and a leading member of the Chinese New Left, even besides he sees the Chinese New Left as neoauthoritarian”
in short, a lib. I do not get how people can read these utterings of liberal hor air and think “oh that guy must totally be a communist”.
So “let’s not privatise companies” == lib(ertarianin) for you? Yeah, we might be using words differently.
“he sees the […]] as neoauthoritarian” “new left” in a socialist state…
The former is liberal hogwash, the latter is left deviationism at best. Both together?
There is no contradiction here, you can call it however you want but the truth of the matter is that capitalists hold no political power in China and it’s why the West constantly labels it an authoritarian regime, which is true, it’s authoritarian towards capitalists.
Yes, no one is arguing with that. If I came off as arguing with that, my bad.
Btw - Instead of “authoritarian towards capitalist” doesn’t it make more sense to call it “biased against capitalist” or something?
according to
wikipediaNATOpediaArticle 1 of the constitution of the People’s Republic of China: “China is socialist”
Xi Jinping in all his speeches and books: “China is socialist”
Random
(probably liberal)economist on CIA controlled site: “China is capitalist”I wonder who to believe…
Good troll 😂
The Chinese bourgeoisie with political power are on the island of US-occupied China.
Huh, it’s weird to see Pokepreet be talked about here, I seldom come across a social tiktoker be featured, it’s like two separate spheres.
