love it when anarchokiddies hate the very idea of governments existing so strongly that they blind themselves to reality :/
You can provide an anarchist everything they’d ever need to realize that [insert government] is objectively supportable, and they’ll prefer the non-source that supports their bias instead.
You can show them textbooks upon textbooks on the genuine good China is doing in the world, they’ll point you towards a hit piece that was likely written by the CIA to disprove you. You can tell them about the wonderful things Cuba is doing with medical internationalism, and they’ll point you to a still image of protesters taken out of context.
Just because the government they grew up under sucks, they choose to believe that all governments do. And refuse to accept that their bias is dead wrong, and their aversion to “statist” politics only hurts the left.
One easy way to think of it, is that anarchists, like other groups, are getting the primary contradiction / conflict wrong. They can’t even identify what’s wrong with the world correctly, so of course their answers are completely irrelevant; they have to create their own alternate-reality based on no evidence, and untried idealistic scenarios. This is why Lenin railed on the anarchists for not caring about the immediate tasks of the proletarian dictatorship: building an army, crushing capital and preserving itself.
Anti-semites for example think the primary contradiction is between “jewish bankers” and the people, conspiracy theorists think its between the “illuminati mason 5G lizard-men” and the people. Libertarians, liberals, and anarchists think its between “the state” and the people. As Marxists we know the primary contradiction is between capitalists and workers.
Side-point, but I’ve seen this a lot in discussions about the sex-trade recently. Anarchists mis-identify the main contradiction in the sex-trade as between “cops vs everyone else”. In reality its between johns and person selling themselves, the battleground being the body / sexual autonomy of the victim: the john wanting as much dominion over the body of their “purchase” for as little as possible. Because of this mis-analysis, anarchists see no problem whatsoever with sex-buyers, the multi-billion-dollar rape industry, and they functionally work for its expansion.
Well China has billionaires therefore no marks and no lenin. No war communism in sight. So China bad. Also, Mao bad.
-TOL imperial core Hoxhaists
“It’s totally a core theory in Marxism to enslave your country to Western corporations, create a massive clique multi-billionaires who run the Communist Party, maintain massive stock markets, have sixteen-hour workdays, totally Marxist! This is what Lenin would dream about!”> -Dengists
The CPC is not run by billionaires, wtf are you talking about.
Is China State Capitalist?
- The backbone of the economy is state ownership and socialist planning. 24 / 25 of the top revenue companies are state-owned and planned. 70% of the top 500 companies are State-owned. 1, 2 The largest bank, construction, electricity, and energy companies in the world, are CPC controlled entities, subject to the 5 year plans laid out by the central committee.
- Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
- Is modern day china communist? Is it staying true to communist values?
- Didn’t China go Capitalist with Deng Xiaoping? Didn’t it liberalize its economy? Is China’s drastic decrease in poverty a result of the increase in free market capitalist policies?
- Is the CPC committed to communism?
- The Long Game and Its Contradictions. Audiobook
- The myth of Chinese state capitalism. Did Deng really betray Chinese socialism?
- Tsinghua University- Is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics real socialism, or is it state Capitalism?
- Isn’t China revisionist for having a capitalist sector of the economy, and working with capitalists? Why isn’t it fully planned like the USSR was?
- Castro on why both China and Vietnam are socialist countries.
The PRC has atleast 100 billionaires in the upper sections of its government and “Communist” party, and many more millionaires.
These sources are both false and misleading. The economy of the People’s Republic of China is very similar to that of a Fascist state, in that state and capital have merged to such an extent to which even the state-owned economic assets are de-facto in the hands of the ultra-rich. Even if these sources were correct, it does not change the fact that the state-owned sections of the economy are a minority, making up only aboud 25% of the economy, the rest being privately owned.
Perhaps you Dengists should consider reading the works of actual Marxists, it will help you understand that multi-billionaires and Socialism are incapable.
