Communism is a classless stateless society. China has a vanguard party, and any attempts to protest. Run against it, or run outside it will result in torture, imprisonment, and death. The vanguard and their oligarch pals are a separate class from a Chinese citizen. Not classless, not communist. China is a state. Literally not stateless, literally not communist.
The reason authoritarianism exists there is because the military overthrew the emperor/tsar and put themselves in power. And militaries function via authority. It’s got nothing to do with WWII or western powers. They did it to themselves.
It’s funny how leninist etc clutch their pearls and bemoan the wests trepidation towards them. When they’re perfectly innocent. After all, who doesn’t forcefully annex much of Eastern Europe?
Not saying the west has never overstepped it’s bounds or fucked up. Not at all. Just that leninist are the wests hypocritical equal.
Of course, China is not a “communist country” in the sense that it has achieved communism - in that sense, “communist country” is a contradiction in terms and no country could ever be communist, because communism is stateless. When people describe countries as communist, what they mean is that the leaders profess belief in communist ideology, that is, a country that is run by communists.
China has not achieved a global, publicly owned and planned economy, no, but is still working towards that, as Marxists would, through Socialism.
First of all, the state and government are not the same thing, and parties are not classes either. The State is the aspect of society that enforces class distinctions, classes themselves being relations to ownership. The way Marx believed we could get to statelessness is by nationalizing the large industries and firms that are already built up enough for central planning to work, and let the small firms compete and grow until they reach that point. This is what China’s economy looks like.
I think if you listened more to what Marxists believe, you’d be more likely to succeed in leftist organizing in real life (if you do any).
Read chinese history. Try again. When you can’t even use wikipedia to support your ridiculous misconception of history I don’t care about anything else you say.
Cool. So you’d support a popular, citizen lead uprising that had to convince illiterate farmers to take up arms against western funded and armed authoritarian monarchists and then establishing a state to deal with the now 1 billion people that statistically knew nothing but farming while introducing them to higher level concepts like the existence of police or government they can participate in or what their taxes even do, right?
Hell if you were a communist you’d have some response to how to deal with an international, infinitely funded threat actor right?
You wouldn’t be stuck at the idea that you can go from agrarian subsistence farmers to post scarcity mutual aid communes, right? You wouldn’t be dumb enough to think that you even have the capability to defend yourself and you local community, much less a revolution, without a clear state hierarchy in place for mass coordination and communication, right? You’d be smart enough to know why stateless communities cannot exist in any world where a single stated capitalist actor exists, right?
There was no strawman, by the way, cosplayer. You repeat the empires propaganda like a lib, you repeat their ideology word for word, it doesn’t matter what you call yourself.
A citizen military is still a citizen military. The military is not a democracy. They didn’t win with luck dragons and unicorns. And did not disband to Institute actual democracy. Whether or not they started out as Citizens doesn’t disprove what I said. It’s a red herring.
No one asked my response, least of all you. Again with more red herrings and straw man attacks. Anyhow I’ve got better things to do then toy further with you.
Communism is a classless stateless society. China has a vanguard party, and any attempts to protest. Run against it, or run outside it will result in torture, imprisonment, and death. The vanguard and their oligarch pals are a separate class from a Chinese citizen. Not classless, not communist. China is a state. Literally not stateless, literally not communist.
The reason authoritarianism exists there is because the military overthrew the emperor/tsar and put themselves in power. And militaries function via authority. It’s got nothing to do with WWII or western powers. They did it to themselves.
It’s funny how leninist etc clutch their pearls and bemoan the wests trepidation towards them. When they’re perfectly innocent. After all, who doesn’t forcefully annex much of Eastern Europe?
Not saying the west has never overstepped it’s bounds or fucked up. Not at all. Just that leninist are the wests hypocritical equal.
Of course, China is not a “communist country” in the sense that it has achieved communism - in that sense, “communist country” is a contradiction in terms and no country could ever be communist, because communism is stateless. When people describe countries as communist, what they mean is that the leaders profess belief in communist ideology, that is, a country that is run by communists.
China has not achieved a global, publicly owned and planned economy, no, but is still working towards that, as Marxists would, through Socialism.
First of all, the state and government are not the same thing, and parties are not classes either. The State is the aspect of society that enforces class distinctions, classes themselves being relations to ownership. The way Marx believed we could get to statelessness is by nationalizing the large industries and firms that are already built up enough for central planning to work, and let the small firms compete and grow until they reach that point. This is what China’s economy looks like.
I think if you listened more to what Marxists believe, you’d be more likely to succeed in leftist organizing in real life (if you do any).
Stop. Bad radlib.
Read chinese history. Try again. When you can’t even use wikipedia to support your ridiculous misconception of history I don’t care about anything else you say.
I’m a communist / anarchist. Try again? Or are strawman all you have?
Cool. So you’d support a popular, citizen lead uprising that had to convince illiterate farmers to take up arms against western funded and armed authoritarian monarchists and then establishing a state to deal with the now 1 billion people that statistically knew nothing but farming while introducing them to higher level concepts like the existence of police or government they can participate in or what their taxes even do, right?
Hell if you were a communist you’d have some response to how to deal with an international, infinitely funded threat actor right?
You wouldn’t be stuck at the idea that you can go from agrarian subsistence farmers to post scarcity mutual aid communes, right? You wouldn’t be dumb enough to think that you even have the capability to defend yourself and you local community, much less a revolution, without a clear state hierarchy in place for mass coordination and communication, right? You’d be smart enough to know why stateless communities cannot exist in any world where a single stated capitalist actor exists, right?
There was no strawman, by the way, cosplayer. You repeat the empires propaganda like a lib, you repeat their ideology word for word, it doesn’t matter what you call yourself.
A citizen military is still a citizen military. The military is not a democracy. They didn’t win with luck dragons and unicorns. And did not disband to Institute actual democracy. Whether or not they started out as Citizens doesn’t disprove what I said. It’s a red herring.
No one asked my response, least of all you. Again with more red herrings and straw man attacks. Anyhow I’ve got better things to do then toy further with you.
China has actual democracy, you can watch their fucking votes for fucks sake. Bye bye radlib. Hope you get over your programming someday.