• Aljernon@lemmy.today
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          18 hours ago

          I didn’t seriously consider that they would just like I wouldn’t seriously consider White Americans in the 1950’s launching a revolution. China has high propaganda and they’re at the part of both industrialization and capitalism where average people see benefit from both.

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            18 hours ago

            China isn’t capitalist, nor is it an imperialist settler colony that gave 1950s white Statesians a better life. It’s a socialist country, the large firms and key industries are overwhelmingly publicly owned and the working classes are in charge of the state. A revolution would be devastating for the Chinese working classes.

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              7 hours ago

              China isn’t capitalist

              That’s delusional

              the working classes are in charge of the state

              The party is in charge of the state. The working class have vanishingly little power.

              A revolution would be devastating for the Chinese working classes.

              That’s what the Ruling Class in every country says. Can’t let everyday people get too uppity

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                It’s genuinely sad to see people who have been so traumatized by living in an epicenter of capitalist profiteering, gaslighting propaganda, and government violence that they can’t imagine a society that doesn’t work that way. You think this is a normal way for a government to be, and you think the smart thing to do is assume everyone is like the US.

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                The CPC is a working class party, not a class in itself. In the PRC, public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy, private ownership is relegated to the small and medium firms, which are about half sole proprietorships anyways.

                The idea that the party is a distinct class and the idea that an economy where public ownership is principle is somehow capitalist both are contradictory to Marx and common sense, so I’m not sure where you’re coming from.

                A revolution would result in bleak reaction and capitalists in charge of the state, this is the opposite of what the working class wants in China.