ooOOoo! Nice concise agiprop to debunk the “China is state capitalism” losers.
This is cool and all but just because the CPC is harder on the bourgeoisie than other countries’ governments doesn’t mean that China doesn’t have vast amounts of private ownership, worker exploitation, etc., or that the proletariat are really in power and not just CPC bureaucrats. I still don’t see how they’re not just a different kind of social democracy
I still don’t see how they’re not just a different kind of social democracy
In social democracies the capitalists still control the state. They give people social programs and decent wages to buy them off so they don’t seize the means of production… until the contradictions of capitalism start pressing harder. Then you end up with a hard turn to neoliberalism like in the so called “nordic model” nations which have had all their publicly owned infrastructure sold off over the last 30 years.
In China individuals can “own” the means of production but they do not control the means of production, or the state. The Communist party is the one in control of the means of production and they make sure that no group of individuals can threaten The Party. The people are not the ones in power, the Vanguard Party is. The upper levels of the CPC are chosen to lead because they are true believers in the mission of a classless society. They understand that not all officials are pure in their dedication to the project but as long as they fake it and do what is needed, that doesn’t matter. Because the entire party is centered around Marxist Leninist Mao Zedong thought, every generation will be more dedicated to communism.
That generational approach is also being taken to the elimination of Capitalism and private ownership. Every business over a certain size in China must have a Staff and Workers’ Representative Congress. A form of democratic voice for the workers. While they do not officially have the power to demand changes they do have some serious sway sway and in a generation they will likely be much more powerful.
A Social Democracy is a bourgeois state with treats.
Houses are for living, not for speculation.
It should be Musk, Thiel, Bezos, etc standing in the dock like this.
Nah they should just face the wall.
I was imagining how differently the world and our ecology would be, if the West did this kind of looking out for the generations behind us.
Yeah, but to do this they would have to be socialist in the first place. How would you expect capitalist dictatorships of the bourgeoisie to actually crack on the bourgeoisie for doing what capitalism is about, that is maximising profit?
I know. It was imagination.
workers of the world, unite!!
