China isnt communist, not with their actions, not with their economy, not with their society, not with their diplomacy and not even with their politics, communist in name and propaganda only
China is Socialist, and is still trying to build Communism. I am not sure what you are referring to by their “actions.”
Their economy has large firms firmly in the public sector, with the private sector being made up primarily of sole proprietorships and small businesses or cooperatives. This is classical Marxism, you can’t kill an economy into being developed enough for public ownership nor can you outlaw small businesses into large ones. Marx believed markets were the key to laying the foundations for public ownership, and here we are.
Not sure what you mean by “their society,” if I were being dishonest I would say that smells of Western Exceptionalist chauvanism.
Their diplomacy is pretty damn peaceful, they have only a handful of millitary bases worldwide, and instead go for multilateralism.
I don’t know what you mean by “politics,” here, this is more vagueness.
Percentage wise doesn’t determine it, correct, but China is Socialist because the vast majority of its large firms and key industries are Publicly Owned, and the private sector is mainly cooperatives, sole proprietorships, and small businesses. Marx believed markets centralize themselves, meaning over time more can be publicly planned in an efficient manner.
The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i. e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total of productive forces as rapidly as possible.
I want you to look at the bolded word. Why did Marx say by degree? Did he think on day 1, businesses named A-C are nationalized, day 2 businesses D-E, etc etc? No. Marx believed that it is through nationalizing of the large firms that would be done immediately, and gradually as the small firms develop, they too can be folded into the public sector. The path to eliminated Private Property isn’t to make it illegal, but to develop out of it.
The essential condition for the existence, and for the sway of the bourgeois class, is the formation and augmentation of capital;[43] the condition for capital is wage-labour. Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the labourers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the labourers, due to competition, by their revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
This is why, in the previous paragraph, Marx described public seizure in degrees, but raising the level of the productive forces as rapidly as possible.
China does have Billionaires, but these billionaires do not control key industries, nor vast megacorps. The number of billionaires is actually shrinking in the last few years. Instead, large firms and key industries are publicly owned, and small firms are privately owned. This is Marxism.
China isnt communist, not with their actions, not with their economy, not with their society, not with their diplomacy and not even with their politics, communist in name and propaganda only
China is Socialist, and is still trying to build Communism. I am not sure what you are referring to by their “actions.”
Their economy has large firms firmly in the public sector, with the private sector being made up primarily of sole proprietorships and small businesses or cooperatives. This is classical Marxism, you can’t kill an economy into being developed enough for public ownership nor can you outlaw small businesses into large ones. Marx believed markets were the key to laying the foundations for public ownership, and here we are.
Not sure what you mean by “their society,” if I were being dishonest I would say that smells of Western Exceptionalist chauvanism.
Their diplomacy is pretty damn peaceful, they have only a handful of millitary bases worldwide, and instead go for multilateralism.
I don’t know what you mean by “politics,” here, this is more vagueness.
60% of the economy being owned by the people exclusively for the benefit of the people isn’t communist?
Please point out where in the manifesto you dozed off.
No
Percentage wise doesn’t determine it, correct, but China is Socialist because the vast majority of its large firms and key industries are Publicly Owned, and the private sector is mainly cooperatives, sole proprietorships, and small businesses. Marx believed markets centralize themselves, meaning over time more can be publicly planned in an efficient manner.
Marx believed that Socialism means that the workers own the means of production.
In China the communist party owns 60% of the economy, and the rest of the economy is hosting 406 billionaires.
I want you to look at the bolded word. Why did Marx say by degree? Did he think on day 1, businesses named A-C are nationalized, day 2 businesses D-E, etc etc? No. Marx believed that it is through nationalizing of the large firms that would be done immediately, and gradually as the small firms develop, they too can be folded into the public sector. The path to eliminated Private Property isn’t to make it illegal, but to develop out of it.
This is why, in the previous paragraph, Marx described public seizure in degrees, but raising the level of the productive forces as rapidly as possible.
China does have Billionaires, but these billionaires do not control key industries, nor vast megacorps. The number of billionaires is actually shrinking in the last few years. Instead, large firms and key industries are publicly owned, and small firms are privately owned. This is Marxism.
ask me for citations if you want to see why I think this