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dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 week agoI would love to have a calm, rational conversation about China with someone who knows more about it than I do. This thread isn’t going to be the place for that. Can you recommend a community on Lemmy for learning about the Chinese political system, life in China, and specifically how socialism with chinese characteristics differs from other western ideas on the topic?
As a communist, and one from the US, the idea that billionaires can exist but are incapable of influencing the political sphere just… Does not compute for me. And while I do not expect to change my position to the point where I’m okay with billionaires existing, I am willing to learn. I did not understand Cuban democracy until I did.
Eldritch@piefed.world 1 week ago
This. The petite bourgeoisie cannot coexist. They must prey on society by their very nature. And they know that. As such they know that any actual socialist government is going to be set against them and will oppose it. As you have no doubt seen. The Lambs do not lay with the lion.
Unfortunately the only thing they have to offer you is equal but opposed state dogma. Excusing all repression social and otherwise because of the current infrastructure being built and the temporary uplift it brings to the people there. Once the infrastructure is built it will stagnate just like it did in the United states and elsewhere. A fact that they love to ignore. The United states for all its problems raised the material conditions of many people across the globe not just at home. Just like China currently. None of which justifies the bad they do. It’s ultimately not left vs right, or the west vs everyone else. It’s us vs the state. And anyone simping for a state is rightly suspect.