Too many self-proclaimed communists in the West clutch their copies of The Communist Manifesto while hurling criticism at China, oblivious to what communism actually demands in practice. They romanticize a pure, abstract revolution—classless, stateless, perfect—yet fail to grapple with the messy reality of building socialism in a world dominated by imperialist capital. China’s path, with its state-led development and strategic market integration, isn’t a betrayal of communism but a pragmatic response to global capitalism’s chokehold. These armchair Marxists ignore how China lifted millions from poverty while navigating a hostile world order, instead whining about “authoritarianism” through a lens tinted by Western propaganda. True communism isn’t dogmatic purity; it’s dialectical, adapting to material conditions. Criticizing China without understanding its historical and geopolitical context isn’t revolutionary—it’s just posturing that serves the status quo.
564 posts and 78 image replies omitted.The brutal blackpill is that international revolution stopped being a possibility the moment nukes were invented. What Lenin was able to achieve was only possible because of perfect conditions. The Imperial German army collapsed only one year after the Czar left the war, the bourgeoisie was set to take over after Nicholas was deposed but thankfully Western support only arrived after 1919. Those were crucial times where everything succeeded, German intervention was lackluster because the German army ceased to exist, with only volunteers arriving in the Baltic and Finland, Anglo-French expeditionary forces had to land in Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok because the collapsing German, Austrian and Ottoman empires made troop movements impossible. Through luck and cunning the Bolsheviks took power.
The second big counter revolution was the Second World War, but once again, the reactionaries fucked up, they attacked each other and divided their camp. If that didn't happen then we would've seen a joint US-German-Italian-French-British-Polish-Japanese forces invading the Soviet Union.
At the end of WW2 it seemed as world revolution was inevitable. Europe and Asia were in ruins, proles were pissed off and starving. An invasion force promising bread and houses would've taken over all of Eurasia. But then a sun dropped in New Mexico, and shortly afterwards another two followed.
Armored spearheads were now countered by a weapon that was invented too early.
You will have to wait until climate change sets in to have another shot.
>>2457417>why do modsCause they are retarded, fundamentally. That's always the answer. But hey, they are shooting themselves in the foot, generally. It's like empire in general (if I may be permitted the analogy, which is somewhat "out there"), the more they try to strangle the opposition, in the long term, the clearer, simpler, and ultimately better things will become.
I see westoids in general as useless sacks of shit now. Fundamentally.
I'm over it. No more trying.
>>2475955>but do it privately You do it "socially". Production is or stays socialized while profits are privatized. That is the contradiction. If there was a cottage capitalism, with small, independent artisans, "one (or a couple) men workshops", there would be no "contradiction" and capitalism could exist indefinitely.
So goes the theory.
That is all to say. This is why the neoclassic/neolib economist type always talks about some outlandish Robinson Crusoe scenario. To make it work, you have to rip the reality of relations out of its real context and then say "look at this, I have built an independent coconut empire, of course I should be properly remunerated".
>>2483516On the contrary, they're taking very concrete steps to entrench capitalism deeper and deeper as the friends and families of government officials get more and more fabulously wealthy, while they buy up properties and luxury cars in the west for their spoiled kids.
There is less than zero reason for the CPC to begin transitioning to communism, in fact, they would be working against their own personal material interests in doing so. Perhaps, it's religious thinking on the part of the naive who really want China to get a big win for communism, but, more often than not, I'm pretty sure posts like the one you're responding to are just straight dishonest gaslighting or trolling.
>>2484174cope
Deng won, simple as.
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