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>it works in practice but it doesn't work in theory edition

A thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.

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previous thread >>2689946

old thread isn't full, and it isn't even a very fast thread. what gives?

>>2786133
>A thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.

good rift on the /usapol/ copypasta tho

>>2786135
shit, couldn't find it on my phone for some reason
we have 5 burgerpol threads on the front page anyway

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>>2786137
yeah, fair.
>>2786133
interesting comment chain from your vid

>>2786135
besides, 39 posts left in previous one


China is taking us towards the first robotic handjob

>>2786151
I dunno if I want that thing near my cock

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Apparently the hot new anti-China talking point from the Burgers is that the Chinese are lying about their population numbers. Not birth rates but the actual number of people.

>>2786160
I've been hearing this for years but ramping up even more yeah, retards on Reddit saying 'how do we know Chinese population isn't 600 million already'.

>>2786160
so, what's the REAL number?

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ok

So if china somehow falls there's no more resistance to western corporate fascism or whatever you want to call it, were fucked as robot soldiers and advanced Intel just put down any rebellions and corpos win forever

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>>2786272
Based.


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You’re just cheering for the US in 1960 against the US in 2026, or more accurately, the British against the Dutch

>>2786390
remind me, which one of those were communists?

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Rejoice /PRC/ you guys aren't real amerikkka enemy this time just scape goat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUK0OSEIdSs&t=300s

>>2786433
Both of them

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>>2786330
i'm sure they took it poorly. also why did you post trotsky? the only way to make pol "like" marx is to post the quote about lassallle

>>2786594
That thread is still up and I'm in it and it's mostly one fag with a libertarian flag screaming like a retard at every post and then a bunch of 1 post replies saying "Yeah true" from other people and nothing else.

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A victim of Communism cries out against oppression. Is THIS what you DENGOID CAMPISTS defend?

>>2786676
>the commies made me do work, and I failed at that too
Many such cases

Calling China socialist just gives more fuel and justification for nu cold war shenanigans, call China a normal capitalist country and economy and the MIC will melt away

Does anyone have that video/image (don't recall) where a student protestor admits they wanted a massacre to occur in Tiananmen Square so there could be a liberal revolt against the government?

Here's an article about labor conditions in China.

https://www.zhihu.com/question/450019849

Q: Why can’t factories find workers these days?

  1. The Real Labor Shortage:

Even with a standard 40-hour work week, legal overtime pay, standard social benefits, no overnight shifts, and no age discrimination, they still can't find anyone.

The Fake Labor Shortage:

Working 10–12 hours a day, 28 days a month, on a two-shift rotation including overnights. Overtime is paid at the bare minimum rate with zero subsidies. Some offer basic insurance, but most skip the housing fund. On top of that, they only want men under 30 who can handle the graveyard shift.

Then they start screaming: "Why aren't any young people applying for jobs?!"

  1. A friend of mine, her husband’s family owns a factory in a small town in Zhejiang. I won't specify the industry.

A couple of years ago, I was having dinner with her husband, and he started complaining: "It’s so hard to find workers these days. You have to offer at least 4,000 yuan a month just to get someone in the door. That’s 800 yuan more than a few years ago. With over 200 employees, think about how much extra money that is every year…"

Based on that, you’d think he was running a small factory barely staying afloat, right?

Well, let me tell you: his family drives a Rolls-Royce, owns multiple properties in Hangzhou, and lived in the UK for six or seven years. When his wife was still in school, she was already driving an Audi, living in a luxury penthouse, and buying designer bags like they were groceries.

For a wealthy business family like that, "hiring difficulties" must be a real headache, huh?

But for the rest of us commoners — if things are a little harder for them, doesn't that make life a little easier for you?

Don't be the kind of person who does proletarian labor while worrying about a capitalist’s profit margins. Keep grinding, wage slaves!

  1. Here’s a ridiculous one for you.

Back when I was a supervisor in a Suzhou factory, we were losing staff left and right. Management told the boss: "Pay is too low, the work is too hard; we need to give them a raise."

The boss’s response? He rejected the raise and used that money to bring in Living Buddhas from Tibet to perform an exorcism/ritual at the front gate to fix the "bad vibes."

  1. The so-called "labor shortage" is a hoax. The real problem is an unwillingness to improve pay or benefits, and a refusal to treat workers with basic human dignity.

Ten years ago, when I first started working in factories in the Pearl River Delta, many places would openly blacklist people from provinces like Henan, Guizhou, and Guangxi. You couldn’t get a job through official channels; you had to pay a middleman just to get in. That’s how arrogant they were back then.

Factories will always push workers to their physical limits without raising wages. If one "star" worker can do 4,000 pieces a day while everyone else does 3,000, the factory will inevitably cut the unit price. In the end, everyone is forced to do 5,000 pieces just to make less than they did for 4,000. People like that usually end up being hated by the entire workshop.

On an hourly assembly line, you can only imagine how fast they crank up the "engine." It’s exactly like Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times.

In many factories, even going to the bathroom requires a formal report and an "off-post permit." You have to pass through security and wait in line just to use the toilet.

You often see short videos claiming factories are struggling to find people for 10,000 RMB a month, but once they bait you into going there — like those small shops in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou — you realize it was all a lie.

Finally, a word of advice to young people: avoid the factory life if you can. Unless you are in a critical technical role, you’ll eventually be replaced by a robot. When that day comes and you’re unemployed, you’ll realize that after years in a factory, you don’t have any other skills to fall back on.

  1. I used to work for a top-tier industry leader in China.

I saw with my own eyes over 500 workers arrive at the dorms with their families to start their jobs. Three days later, fewer than 150 remained on the roster. These people brought their entire families, thinking a "big factory" would provide stable income. Instead, driven by insane workloads and the arrogant, abrasive attitudes of low-level supervisors, they fled in the middle of the night. In this place, a worker with three months of experience is considered a "veteran," because 99% of people don't stay.

I saw with my own eyes elite graduates from 985 and 211 universities — hired as engineers — being "dispatched" to the assembly line to "learn" because the factory was short on manual labor. They worked 12-hour night shifts, and excluding meal times, spent 10 hours doing grueling mechanized labor — lifting boxes — six days a week for a month straight. And yet, this is a company that constantly brags about its "Smart Manufacturing."

I saw with my own eyes the leadership remove every single chair in the workshop just because "supervisors sometimes get lazy." Every worker was forced to stand for the full 12-hour shift; no squatting, no sitting allowed. The elite graduates were treated the same way. When I massaged my calves and asked "veteran" workers (with only a few months of seniority) if it hurt, they simply said, "Whose legs don't hurt? You just get used to it."

I saw with my own eyes the shoe cabinets outside the "cleanroom." You could see the dust and particles with the naked eye, and the stench was overwhelming. Yet, the leadership wouldn't even spend money on an exhaust fan, not that they ever bothered to walk down there themselves. Shoes and hats were recycled and reused; the "cleanliness" of the cleanroom was a joke.

Out of 30 fresh graduates dispatched there, two developed acute respiratory infections and over a dozen got athlete's foot. This "assignment" triggered a wave of mass resignations among the engineers; that batch of graduates currently has an 80% turnover rate.

I saw with my own eyes that the maximum allowed time for a "leave of absence" (break) within the workshop was 15 minutes — but it took 10 minutes just to walk to the exit. The water fountain was outside, so workers barely got a sip of water all night.

And since the fountain was less than five meters from the stinking shoe cabinets, I refused to drink from it unless my throat was literally parched.

I saw with my own eyes a worker lose an entire night’s wages just for breaking a single pane of glass. Meanwhile, the red banners outside the dorms screamed: "Roll up your sleeves and work hard; 10,000 RMB a month is within your reach."

When labor is scarce, they squeeze every drop out of you; when labor is plenty, they calculate how to lay you off. In the end, when they have enough people, everyone works at 120% capacity; when they don't, people quit in droves. A department that once had 30 people running themselves ragged now has only six people left, just lying flat to get through the day.

Why can’t they find workers? Because the people who make money sitting down don't treat the people who work standing up like human beings.

PS The ultimate irony: while the factory’s reputation is so toxic that they can’t even hire locals, the company somehow wins a "Best Employer" award every single year.

  1. I’ve worked as both a production line worker and a factory HR, so I can give you a first-hand account of the situation.

Beyond the fact that workers aren't treated like human beings, there is another critical factor: the total collapse of trust in the labor market. From recruitment and onboarding to the actual work and final payment, every single step is a cycle of deception and oppression.

There are no effective legal channels to protect workers' rights. We see so many stories of workers failing to get their hard-earned money despite appeals. Since working as an HR recruiter, I’ve realized the truth: this is tacitly permitted. An "industrial powerhouse" needs a constant supply of "disposable consumables," doesn't it?

First, my experience as a worker:

Last year, I was suddenly laid off. My savings were running out, and no one would hire me, not even milk tea shops, which only wanted people under 26 (I was 27). Unable to pay rent and too proud to ask my family for money, I decided to "give up my white-collar pride" and head to a factory to get by.

The ad said the factory was in Guangzhou. Only after I got off the bus did I realize I’d been hauled away to Huizhou. I was stunned, but if I’d left then, I would have wasted the travel fare without earning a cent. I gritted my teeth and stayed. Because I’d been lied to, I had no luggage, so I had to buy a quilt, a mattress, and toiletries on-site.

(This is why there are so many vendors outside factories; they profit off people who were lured there by lies and have no choice but to stay and work.)

The supervisor saw I was a girl with "delicate" skin and assigned me to the "easiest" group. We cleaned phone screen glass by hand, slotting them into racks to be dipped in chemical solvents. It sounds easy, right? It was the easiest job there, yet it nearly killed me.

The Physical Toll: 12-hour shifts on a two-shift rotation. One hour for lunch. Standing the entire time — no chairs allowed.

The Environment: Non-stop, deafening noise. Even with earplugs, my head would buzz for hours after leaving.

The Damage: The cleaning chemicals were incredibly corrosive. The glass coming out of the high-temp wash was scalding. I tried wearing my own gloves, but the supervisor screamed at me, saying gloves would scratch the "precision instruments." After 14 days, my hands were literally rotting despite constant applications of hand cream.

The Sensory Deprivation: No phones allowed — they claim it’s for "trade secrets." Once you enter that workshop, you are cut off from the world for 12 hours. You lose all sense of time. I worked the night shift; every morning when I walked out and saw the rising sun, I felt like I was burning out, like my body was melting in the light. It was a dual agony of body and soul.

Before I went in, I was confident: "It's just standing, I can handle it. It's just 12 hours without a phone, I can entertain myself." You don't know the pain until you've lived it. Add to that the verbal abuse from supervisors and the vulgar, passive-aggressive environment from other workers. As someone who used to sit in an office, I had never seen anything like it. It was impossible to communicate with them on a human level.

After 14 days — which felt like a lifetime — I was paid 1,860 RMB. That’s roughly 132 RMB a day, or less than 12 RMB per hour. When I demanded to know why the promised rate of 19 RMB/hour wasn't met, they claimed I was "too slow," my "productivity was too low," and because I didn't stay a full month, they were entitled to dock my pay to the 12 RMB rate. I have never felt so cheap in my life.

Then, my experience as an HR:

In July, after leaving a foreign trade company, I took an HR job, not realizing it was for a factory. That’s when I truly understood why they can’t find workers.

Factory recruiters shouldn't be called "Human Resources." They are human trafficking cartels with a corporate veneer. The hourly rates in the ads are fake. The locations are fake. The photos of the work environment are fake.

Applicants usually want a job near home. They ask the HR if the factory is local, and the HR says yes just to get them there. In reality, the buses are already scheduled for specific factories.

Everyone who shows up that day gets herded onto a bus and sent to one location, regardless of what city they wanted. People realize they've been conned once they arrive, but like I was, they are often at the end of their rope and just "accept their fate." It’s an entire predatory industry chain: physical exam fees, bus fares, selling daily necessities.

I asked my colleagues, "Won't we get in trouble for lying like this?" The boss slammed the table and said, "Every factory does this. If you don't lie, you won't find anyone."

I stayed for one month. I recruited 15 people and made 12,000 RMB (5,000 base + 500 per head). The office felt like a trafficking ring — counting "heads" on buses and learning mental manipulation scripts to manipulate workers into staying when they tried to quit.

Even though I tried to be honest with my recruits, my conscience couldn't take it, so I resigned. (I guess that’s why I’ll never be rich.)

This company has existed for ten years, has over a hundred employees, and is a "high-income taxpayer."

So, why can’t factories find workers?

The answer is obvious. If capitalists would rather "dump milk" than share wealth, and if recruiters act like outlaws beyond the reach of labor laws, then the best thing workers can do is "waste" their labor by staying away.

The reputation of an "Industrial Powerhouse" should not be built upon the marrow and blood of its workers.

[machine translated]

>>2786931
Conditions like this have been common in China for decades at this point. The real news is that China is reaching the limit of how much it can gain from the traditional industrial capitalist model, this is why western countries deindustrialized because forcing workers into factories is a tough sell and radicalizes them. The only way China can navigate this is by continuing automation while also realizing that other third world countries are going to want to industrialize aswell and will be able to undercut chinese offers as the proletariat won't accept shitty wages anymore. Before people had no real understanding of capitalism or factory work so going from rural shithole peasantville to a shiny new factory was seen as a major step up, but now they are starting to realize it actually sucks dick. But China doesn't want to give up its role as the workshop of the world so its caught in a contradiction currently. It will be up to the communist party to properly resolve this contradiction if China wants to maintain its power and stability.

>>2786931
Awful. This is why I can't have that much faith in China, if they really meant what they say they would arrest all these fatcats and shoot them.

>>2786938
Why can't they just make conditions better? It sounds like most of the issues aren't even about pay, just how abysmal it is to work there. Why can't the bourgeois treat the workers a little better? I understand they're exploiters but surely they would make more money in the long term if they didn't have to try and hire more people every few days?

>>2786931
yeah but the wrong schizo told us all that china has achieved communism. it has ended exploitation of man on man and factories are paying proletarian wages and engaging in proletarian commodity production and investing in proletarian stock exchanges

>>2786943
Mostly because it makes the factory uncompetitive, in our current world industrial capitalism is basically playing hot potato with countries that haven't experienced how shit capitalism is. Places that are smart can outcompete factories that "respect" their workforces by simply exploiting their proles more than the other guy. In post-feudal countries this is effective because no one has any understanding of factory life, so as a result these nations can put other factories out of work by being more profitiable to invest into.

>>2786951
(me) I want to also add that the cheapness of the labor isn't the only way for a factory to outcompete others. One of the big reasons why China is still such an industrial powerhouse is because it has robust infrastructure and supply chains with rapidly increasing automation that maintains its competitiveness on the global stage. This is why it focuses so heavily on automation and robots so it can remain in competition with less industrialized nations with cheaper labor costs.

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Chinese leftychuds, please translate what the white dude is saying.

>>2787035
Seems like just an introduction with American intonation. I highly doubt that gusano understand most of what he said.

>>2786659
sounds like a blast

>>2786931
>nobody wants to work
>no I will not raise wages or improve conditions
Some things are universal, wish this wasn't one of them

>>2787035
white dude asks him if he has an english name. Professor says he doesn't.

The Chinese don’t want whatever you call the system governing them to continue, if they did they would be at replacement birth rate

>>2787111
Thank you fren

>>2787131
The one child policy was a mistake and we are living with the consequences of it to this day.

>>2787415
>mistake
How so?

>>2786533
looks agile af but also fragile af

>>2787131
Facts. Chinese communist society is the only one both willing and able to transition to a society where labor naturally replenishes itself. Imagine a world where every countries population shrank over time except for Chinas, who's growth is exponential, given enough time the communists would overwhelm everyone else

>>2787445
Created a massive gender imbalance, created an internal enemy faction within (families who hated the restrictions and tried to keep the kids), compounded the effects of the demographic transition (less kids being had now would not be as big of an issue if more kids were alive in the past), weakened the pension system (decreasing population leads to greater strain on retirement systems always), created a massive propaganda win for NATO/The West (look at the Chinese killing their babies etc.) during the Cold War, the list goes on.

>>2787131
This is a retarded argument because all developed nations have failed to reach replacement birth rate. Unless you would like to claim that Somalia or Yemen or some other warzone is a paradise on earth because of their higher birthrates you'll need more to substantiate your claim.

>>2787470
All development is anti human, the fact is China and the west equally abuse their citizens to the point they can’t afford or don’t even want kids anymore

>>2787473
>Ooga booga we must live in primitive communes because le industrial society is oppressive and satanic
welcome back Robert Owen

>>2787474
He was correct, do you know alienated and abused any mammal has to be to forgo its reproductive instincts?

>>2787474
The hell of capitalism is the firm, not whoever claims to run it


>>2787468
The one child policy was a succes and it did what it needed to do.

>>2787530
Force rural blue collar chinese men to get brides in the mail from Myanmar and Pakistan?

>>2787484
meaningless

>>2786272
I would have told them the american bourgeoisie eat people.

>>2787111
Based Mandarin understander.

Does anyone have the video of the chinese guy living under a bridge in NYC shouting about how he was lied to that he could have a good life as a dishwasher?

>>2786931
>an article
thats just a random person ranting on the chinese equivalent of quora, not "an article" that examined the average condition thoroughly across the country

and yes a lot of factory work (especially exploiting rural migrant labor) can be pretty damn awful, thats standard capitalist dynamic at work
but on the other hand, these eventually get automated (or get outcompeted by automated factories and close), or there come a crackdown from the authorities, or they're forced to improve condition, or workers get truly fed up and come in the CEO office to sequester him and the authorities make an example out of him and send him to jail to calm everyone down
all statistics and metrics show that steadily things are improving, and work become higher quality and less harsh.

>>2787131
all polls show that on the contrary, they massively support the current system and government, and your argument is retarded, none of the developed states are at replacement rate

>>2787415
no, it was a smart policy with some bad side effects

>>2787825
You can’t genuinely support a system where you can’t afford to have kids, also polls are literally always wrong

>>2787943
i think we are being raided by the sharty rn

where do I listen to the whole Chapo Trap House episode in OP?

Since they shut down their subreddit I can't get my fix and this being about CHOYNAH makes me wanna listen to it even more

A day in a life of a chinese treatlerite

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Why isnt rest of 3rd world copying this massively succesful model?

<Sovereign Control: China never surrendered its financial sovereignty. The state retained absolute control over its banking system, credit creation, and currency, meaning foreign capital could not dictate domestic economic policy.


<Forced Technology Transfer: China refused to remain a permanent sweatshop. It forced Western corporations into joint ventures, demanding they hand over intellectual property and manufacturing know-how in exchange for access to Chinese labor and markets.


<Reinvestment over Extraction: Instead of letting local oligarchs and foreign corporations offshore the profits (as happens in Latin America and Africa), China aggressively funneled the capital generated by cheap exports into massive infrastructure projects, domestic supply chains, and research and development.

>>2792370
Not everyone can survive without Western trade

>>2792370
  1. have you read marx?
  2. do you understand the concept of "class character" when applied to a government?

>>2792412
National cuckoldry sure is more prevalent amongst capitalist governments, but having your own industries and having a national industrial policy is not communist exclusive

>>2792370
because to implement all of those policies requires the government to be led by an ideologically driven party with a long term vision for the country. most 3rd world countries aren't and in addition to that they:
  1. are very small and can't survive without trade with the USA
  2. are close enough to the USA that constant covert or overt interference by the USA is a legitimate concern

also in order to rise above developing country status countries need to maintain these policies for 30ish years. at the time when the PRC first implemented their version of those policies they had the protection of the USSR which they kept for good number of years, in addition to their advantageous geographic position (far away from the USA).

anyways, at the end of the day the objective of any developing nation in the world is to implement the policies you've outlined but the path to that will be different for each one depending on their material conditions.

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>>2792370
>Why isnt rest of 3rd world copying this massively succesful model?
Because China is a proletarian republic.


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I love Chinese nationalists who are like "da fucking joooos control america death to israel" one moment and then "noooo China MUST to trade with Israel they have no choice otherwise 10 billion Chinese are gonna die you privileged westoid!!!" the next

>>2792370
Hard to do when your biggest manufacturing competitor is China. Those forced technology transfers will have to come from China to whom you have a massive trade deficit anyway

>>2793029
If western "leftists" acutally walked the walk as much as they talked the talk we'd have global communism instead of terminally online cucktinism with dengoid characteristics.

>>2793140
yes but they have to spend considerable effort shitting up threads randomly to seethe at china and anyone defending them, because they have to believe they're at least as bad as their own state, or else they cant feel superior and will have to admit the chinese path to socialism model is working and better in every aspect to their impossible ultra fantasies

>>2793185
what's the chinese path to socialism model that western leftists should follow? The working conditions here >>2786931 ?

>>2793194
>The working conditions here
they already have those in the west, just go into any place that use illegal migrant labor

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Anti-CCP people are going through their's incel phase, but I think they're right on this matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4JWLIJ6ZIo

I think the US with the IMEC is once again betting on the losing horse…There is no way India wont have huge structural, environmental, social and other problems that will bring disruptions to supply chains…

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forgot pic

>>2794090
based feminist china

>>2792883
>No African american team member

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>>2794090
Do you think I could find a successful Chinese career woman who would take me for a house husband?

>>2793384
We kneel to slave labour with dengoid characteristics

>>2794090
VOLCEL GANG


>>2797732
Literal brain drain

>Lieber was found guilty by a jury and convicted in December 2021 of making false statements to federal investigators about his ties to a Chinese state program to recruit overseas talent, and tax offenses related to payments he received from a Chinese university. He served two days in prison and six months under ‌house arrest, and was fined $50,000 and ordered to pay $33,600 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. During the case, his defense said he was suffering from an incurable lymphoma, which was in remission, and he was fighting for his life.


>Three years after he was sentenced, Reuters has learned that Lieber is now overseeing China’s state-funded i-BRAIN, or the Institute for Brain Research, Advanced Interfaces and Neurotechnologies, with access to dedicated nanofabrication equipment and primate research infrastructure unavailable to him at Harvard. The lab is an arm of the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation, or SMART.


So, he either was convicted rightfully (in a sense that he indeed was playing for the Chinese side), or he decided to take revenge by switching to Chinese side. Either case it's amazing news, yeah?

>>2797744
>“China has weaponized against us our own openness and our own efforts for innovation,” said Glenn Gerstell, a nonresident senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and former general counsel of the U.S. National Security Agency from 2015 to 2020. “They’ve flipped that and turned it around against us, and they’re ​taking advantage of it.”

Yeah dude, you've convicted a person for foreign ties, that's how open you are


>>2793029
you are eternally online, which is to say a silly person

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uuuuh… multipolaristas? what's going on here

>>2797732
anti-paywall (will be up in a few mins)
https://archive.ph/fVd2y

>>2797893
Changing the way things are calculated won't will industries into existance, buddy. And we don't even talk about how GDP is a false metric nobody's in charge of anything is using in practice

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>>2797893
>>2798487
Also, GDP PPP is just a modifier on GDP, so it's shit as well.


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I found out recently that the Chinese have been converting old J-6 airframes into kamikaze drones. https://theaviationist.com/2025/09/17/china-j-6-drone-conversion/

>>2798575
Big bada boom

Thoughts on this interesting article about Xi's idea of "self-revolution"? It argues that he sees it as a method to maintain the party's effectiveness and ideology to avoid the USSR's fate or "democratization".
>The Soviet collapse remains one of his defining cautionary tales. Early in his tenure, he famously said that “nobody was man enough” to stop Mikhail Gorbachev’s failed reforms because they had stopped believing in communism. But he also sees poor governance as an important factor, arguing that the Soviet Communist Party “separated itself from the people and became a privileged bureaucratic group that only protected its own interests.”
https://archive.ph/pI3GR
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/xis-forever-purge

>>2801426
Where do they get those quotes from?

>>2801426
>THE ROT WITHIN
>Autocracies have always struggled to control their own bureaucrats. Without an independent judiciary, a free press, or competitive elections, the system lacks many of the external checks that constrain official abuse elsewhere.
It's much easier to just let corrupt officials to do whatever they please, like they do in the West, and pretend that nothing happened. That's how you get very high corruption transparency metrics while get bridges and roads built in decades, unlike China which builds them in months.

Why have I even open the articile? It's the same stupid self-masturbatory shit Westoids love so much. Oh, communists fight corruption? It must mean they have 100x the corruption, because we don't fight corruption as much, and we congratulate ourselves every year that we don't have any notable corruption!

>>2801426
>>2801463
>Success could also resonate abroad. Xi does not frame self-revolution as a purely domestic project. He has presented it explicitly as a “powerful answer” to advocates of the “Western formula” of multiparty competition and separation of powers. Beijing has increasingly promoted self-revolution as a model to emulate, signing anticorruption cooperation agreements with dozens of countries and running political discipline training for officials from around the developing world.
Lmao, Westoids are about to experience China-backed anticorruption scandals, protests, coups and revolutions. I wonder how the Panama Papers published by China's journalists look like

>>2801426
>Xi’s focus on self-revolution may also make him less inclined toward major external gambles. Only months ago, he told the Central Committee that “corruption is the greatest threat our party faces”—not the United States, or Taiwan, or even the economy. The recent PLA purges, which will make any war harder to fight in the near term, reveal how deeply Xi remains preoccupied with corruption, loyalty, and institutional effectiveness. A leader consumed by domestic discipline and elite governance may pursue a foreign policy that is hard-edged and nationalistic, but he is also likely wary of truly high-stakes risks.

And this passage is authors' lack of education speaking. Both Lenin and Stalin, Mao and Ho Chi Mihn and Che Guevara, all said that imperialists are paper tigers, and that the real enemy are the traitors. Imperialists cannot do anything if there are no people who are willing to destroy their own countries for whatever retarded reason like "democratization", "market efficiency compared to plan", or simply for getting paid more

>>2801467
>China-backed anticorruption scandals, protests, coups and revolutions
No, they're talking about cooperation with other communist countries like Vietnam.
>Both sides agreed to promote exchanges in discipline inspection, and enhance cooperation in anti-corruption
https://www.idcpc.org.cn/english2023/lldt/201809/t20180930_161308.html

>>2801502
It's clearly obvious that "corruption" in this means "anti-state interests", i.e. globalist neoliberalist porkies, the breed Xi wants dead.

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>>2786931
Chinese specialists talking to third world's soon to be proles

>>2801653
Yeah, USA and Europe overstayed their welcome

>>2786272
They aren't wrong.

>>2801688
mossad

>>2801735
Pork to be slaughtered

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this guy used to do "china is cooked" clickbait

pic 1 is today
pic 2 is three years ago, LMFAO

I've come to the conclusion that Xi is merely pretending to be retarded on the public stage, but he's actually a secret genius.
From the outside it looks like he's an authoritarian state capitalist bureaucrat and straigtforward ideological Dengist anti-communist.
Nothing could be further from the truth!
Socialism with Chinese characteristics is a total lie! But also not as I'll explain.
Xi is actually in fact actually existing L/Acc in action. He has recognised in the current era trying to avoid being capitalist is not merely foolish, but impossible. It would cripple any nation to try it.
Instead, he is utilising things which sound comedically self-contradicatory - "people's CEOs" and "communist billionaires" - as discardable tools to rapidly develop capitalism, technology, and industry as far as humanly possible.
Only then will 2 goals simultaneously be completed: It will cause the collapse of capitalism from the inside, as fast as it can be done, allowing for a post-capitalist, communist society to replace it. And on the flip side it will create the technology required for such a society to function - utilising the spiralling of capitalsim to generate the computing capacity and robotics tech for the possibility of UBI, robots doing manual labour, etc, etc which will facilitate communism.
When you view it this way, Temu and TikTok makes so much more sense. The shittiness is the point! It is anal cancer capitalism, to produce the $$$ for real technological projects while rotting global capitalism into it's worst and fastest format!
The only problem is what if he dies, and a genuine Dengist or neo-Maoist takes over? I hope he has prepared for this scenario.

>>2803324
>it's worst
small grammatical mistake
you lose

/PRC/ be like "this petty bourg youtube political slop grifter posted 'china down' during past news cycle and is posting 'china up' yesterday; this has positive implications worth discussing"

Room temp

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this uygha name Dong Shopping



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Dengism is revisionism

>>2806080
This is awesome

>>2806080
>words words words
deng can't meme

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>China has confirmed for the first time that it provided on-site technical support to Pakistan during its war with India last year.

>During the conflict, a Chinese-made fighter shot down at least one of India’s French-made fighters.


>On Thursday, China’s state broadcaster CCTV aired an interview with Zhang Heng, an engineer from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China’s (AVIC) Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute, a key developer of China’s advanced fighter aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicle design.


>Zhang had provided technical support to Pakistan during the four-day war last May.


https://archive.ph/FPIjE

>>2806080
>Neoliberal proposes increased censorship and propaganda
The West is literally already doing this no wonder he lives in Taiwan he's mentally retarded.

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>>2801426
>picrel. no more mr. nice guy

What do we think about this? How do they even choose officials? It just seems like an excuse to pick and choose who the bosses want (not necessarly a bad thing)

>In appointing officials, the Party has adopted a rational approach with a greater emphasis on political integrity. It has adhered to the principle of selecting officials on the basis of both integrity and ability, with greater weight given to the former, and on the basis of merit regardless of background, and it is intent on appointing those who are dedicated, impartial, and upright. The Party has opposed the selection of officials solely on the basis of votes, assessment scores, GDP growth rates, or age, or through open popularity contests. It has strengthened the role of Party organizations in exercising leadership and final oversight in order to rectify misconduct in the selection and appointment of officials.

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>>2806080
>liberalism is falling, we need fascism to save it

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>>2806080
>>2807105
Can this fucker even define what liberalism is? What is the BEST thing in the world, according to him?

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>>2807107
>unrealistic, non-emprical economic policies
Libs are in denial that socialism works while liberalism doesn't - not without plunder of the third world, anyway.

What's with the controlled appreciation of the yuan? Is China giving up on exporting to the world? Or is this just due to the oil crisis?

>>2807239
>6.83 to 6.80
Nothingburger

>At the Chinese companies we talked to, 89 percent of employees were African, adding up to nearly 300,000 jobs for African workers. Scaled up across all 10,000 Chinese firms in Africa, this suggests that Chinese-owned business employ several million Africans. Moreover, nearly two-thirds of Chinese employers provided some kind of skills training. In companies engaged in construction and manufacturing, where skilled labor is a necessity, half offer apprenticeship training.

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/middle-east-and-africa/the-closest-look-yet-at-chinese-economic-engagement-in-africa

>>2807246
That's just in 1 month.

>>2807279
Sounds like American problem

As of early May 2026, the Chinese Yuan (CNY) has strengthened significantly against the US Dollar (USD), reaching 3-year highs, while remaining relatively stable but slightly weaker against the Euro (EUR). The CNY strengthened 0.39% against the USD in the past four weeks to around 6.81 per dollar, while trading roughly 7.97–8.01 against the EUR.Yuan Against Dollar (CNY vs USD)Trend: The yuan hit roughly 6.81 per dollar, its strongest level since February 2023.Performance: Over the last 4 weeks (April-May 2026), the USD/CNY rate fell around \(0.39\%\) (meaning the yuan gained value).Drivers: Increased confidence in Chinese assets and a sharp drop in the US dollar index to below 98.Yuan Against Euro (CNY vs EUR)Trend: The Yuan has been stable or marginally lower against the Euro in the same period, with 1 EUR fluctuating around the 8.00 CNY level.Performance: In the last 7 days leading to May 8, 2026, the CNY remained stable, showing a slight \(0.12\%\) decrease.History: The rate has ranged roughly between 7.97 and 8.01 per Euro in the short term.SummaryThe yuan's strength is primarily driven by dollar weakness rather than a broad surge against all currencies, as shown by its steadiness against the euro despite sharp gains against the dollar.

>>2807274
Le imperialism. Should have been creating ethnically Chinese compounds to avoid exploiting local workers

>At the same time, however, misguided ideas have often cropped up, such as money worship, hedonism, ultra-individualism, and historical nihilism, online discourse has been rife with disorder, and certain leading officials have demonstrated ambiguity in their political stance and a lack of fighting spirit. These phenomena all have a serious impact on people’s thinking and the environment for public discourse.

What does ultra-individualism mean in this context? Can I get an example?

explain why a stock market is communism without sounding schizophrenic

>>2808058
You can clearly see that China's stock market is fundamentally different from a bourgeois one


>>2808058
>explain why a stock market is communism without sounding schizophrenic

In this video, Ben Norton argues that China did not abandon socialism after the economic reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. Instead, he presents China’s system as a form of “socialism with Chinese characteristics,” in which markets and private enterprise are permitted but remain subordinate to state direction. According to the video, Deng believed China was still economically underdeveloped after the Mao era and needed to modernize its productive forces. Rather than fully planning the economy in the Soviet style, China adopted a mixed system where the state retained control over the “commanding heights” of the economy—banking, infrastructure, energy, telecommunications, heavy industry, and land—while allowing limited market competition in less strategic sectors.

The transcript emphasizes that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) remain central to China’s economy. Norton argues that although private companies and stock markets exist, the largest and most strategic sectors are still dominated by public ownership and directed through state planning. He cites data showing that many of China’s largest corporations are SOEs and contends that their purpose is not maximizing profits, but supporting long-term national development, industrialization, employment, and macroeconomic stability. The video also discusses the influence of Chen Yun, who developed the “birdcage economy” metaphor: markets are allowed to function like a bird inside a cage, but the Communist Party determines the size and limits of that cage.

A major theme of the video is the contrast between China’s economic model and the highly financialized system of the United States. Norton argues that China prioritizes industrial growth, infrastructure, manufacturing, and poverty reduction over stock market performance. He notes that China’s stock markets have remained relatively stagnant compared to the dramatic growth of U.S. indexes like the S&P 500 and NASDAQ, which he interprets as evidence that the Chinese government does not organize policy around enriching shareholders. Instead, China’s economy relies heavily on state-owned banks, which direct credit toward industries viewed as strategically important. The transcript repeatedly contrasts this with the U.S., where corporations and investors rely heavily on capital markets and stock valuations.

The video also frames China’s development as a successful alternative to neoliberal capitalism. Norton points to China’s rapid industrialization, rising wages, and large-scale poverty reduction as evidence that the system has delivered broad material gains. He argues that capitalist countries in the Global South did not achieve similar outcomes despite embracing markets, suggesting that China’s success stems from state coordination rather than capitalism alone. Throughout the video, he contends that Chinese policymakers favor labor and social stability over private capital accumulation, and he presents government crackdowns on speculative finance, monopolistic behavior, and some billionaires as examples of the Communist Party subordinating capital to state priorities.

Finally, the transcript concludes that China’s economy should be understood not as a capitalist restoration, but as a distinct socialist model that uses markets instrumentally while preserving state control over strategic sectors. Norton argues that the Chinese government views finance and markets as tools for national development rather than ends in themselves. In his interpretation, the U.S. system prioritizes shareholder wealth and financial speculation, whereas China prioritizes industrial policy, social cohesion, and what the Communist Party calls “common prosperity.”

>>2808171
ComradeGPT coal

>dengist

>illiterate
Like clockwork

>>2808171
By this point in time, any country that does industrial policy with state intervention is a honorary socialist, because capitalism is a deeply reactionary formation that refuses to change with the times.

Does anyone have an old leftypol meme/webm stored somewhere that showed the growth of Chinas economy compared to rest of the world while Prokofiev's Cindarella suite plays on the background?

The more I think about it the more I like Deng. He saved China from ultra-retards that only cause death and suffering to ordinary proles.


>>2808171
> Dirigisme but with a coat of red paint
How the fuck is De Gaulle one of the most relevant politicians of the 21st century?

>>2808172
you were linked a video and a summary, and decided to complain that you were given a summary as a bonus. instead of formulating a counter argument, you cried that the argument was made using tools you don't like. you basically proved that GPT is the level of effort that should be used on you because you will look for any excuse to ignore what people say anyway
>>2808177
it's simple. the core deindustrialized and pursued financialization and service sector, while using the CIA and IMF to undermine industrialization and unionization in the third world, resulting in prole concentration in the 2nd world countries.
>>2810443
>it's just dirigisme, nothing more, nothing less
there are valid criticisms of china, but this is a lazy and oft-repeated thought terminating cliche

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Surprised there are no oil interests represented, only tech and finance. Seems like they will be trying to ban China from technologies, again, rather than doing anything useful with Chinese' time

it has become necessary to make the dengism elder scroll a mere txt file for easier deployment

>>2810999
whats that? newest members of the PRCs dengist government council no doubt

>>2810443
The only reason De Gaulle was allowed to do that was because ousting him from powers would've immediately put the communist in charge, and they were REALLY pissed about all the bourgeoisie collaborating with the nazis and not being beheaded for it, so the capitalist class was fucked

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>>2811152
Dengism is revisionism

>>2796891
If there was a black member of the team he would have born in Africa or his parents immigrated here.


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>>2811331
"Dengism" is just Marxism, Marxism is inescapable

>>2796896
No; you are posting on an imageboard, which means you aren't Chad.

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very stupid move. the USA will fuck them over. the USA cannot be trusted.

PLEASE I need that Alex Jones “big guy” edit about China

>>2811936
The rest of human history is just gonna be the US and China taking turns deindustrializing and outsourcing to each other.


>>2810999
why do 4, 8, and 9-12 look like literally the same dude except one is bald
this very scientific observation leads me to the obvious conclusion that at least half of all CEOs are made in the same clone vat

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I need to hear the PLA band's version of the YMCA

>>2811347
the deng scroll is too powerful

Edelweiss is also a good choice

>>2812453
how embarrassing for everyone involved. fuck the PRC for not having decency.

>>2812453
fucking epic

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Khrushchev… I kneel.

>>2812351
low effort sectarian bait

>>2811262
this guy should have had the "attention span" (0:34) to double check his subtitles for the benefit of deaf people, or, much more common, people who just have their speakers muted when watching his video. but yes he is correct.


Why is China being so selfish economically? It maintains protectionist, mercantilist and Keynesian policies. At the same time it criticizes and uses its immense power to pressure other nations, including poor and weak ones, to maintain free trade and open up its country to Chinese products that hollow out domestic industry.

Its just behaving like a typical hypocritical capitalist country. It calls for free trade while using domestic policies that are anti-free trade.

See : https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202605/14/WS6a05c871a310d6866eb48acc.html

>>2812332
nah there has to be some kind of limit to that process
>>2811936
it's pretty funny I was called crazy when I suggested the USA would pass the torch to China and China would become the new "core" instead of acknowledging that capital has a center of gravity which can move from one global region to the other, I was hit with a bunch of metaphysical idealist babble about how only the west is spiritually capable of being the imperial core… and the worst part is you can never say any of this basic analytical stuff without nationalists treating it like team sports. I was neither trying to slander China as imperialist nor downplay the atrocities of the US when I said that. If part of AES winning means AES becoming the core, instead of the core having its own proletarian revolutions, then so be it! Maybe the USA will be more incentivized to have a revolution once it's re-industrialized, re-proletarianized, and no longer hegemonic. A good analysis continues to be vindicated by facts, regardless of who makes it, or for what motivations.

>>2812764
>Marx is infinitely more useful to capitalists than he is to workers
Someone on here once joked that if a chud went back in time and killed Marx, we'd live under socialism, because Capitalists would have never read Capital. I don't think that's true, but it is funny. Marx described capitalism scientifically. The first edition of capital circulated in Germany with only 1000 copies. Who read it? On >>>/edu/ we once had a big fight about this. One anon was insisting that workers voraciously read Capital while I actually cited the meager sales data, the purchasers mostly being people interested in economics, and Marx and Engels exchanging letters about the serialization of Capital in a French journal, which Marx hoped would cause it to reach more workers, since they have less free time, and Marx also thanking Carlo Cafiero for his summary of Capital, and Engels himself writing a synopsis of Capital. All of these suggest to me that Marx and Engels were worried that workers wouldn't actually read Capital, and it is for our era that we can perhaps speculate that porkies read Marxist theory more often than workers because they have more free time more resources at their disposal to help them understand. The workers' understanding of their own exploitation is obvious and felt viscerally on a day to day basis, rather than processed theoretically in an academic fashion. This is why Lenin suggested that the working class can only achieve trade union consciousness on its own and to go further you need a vanguard party to interact with the broader working masses.

>>2813252
Basically both the US and China don't want to repeat the "mistake" of letting the Global South industrialize as both countries face issues with the rate of profit. They don't want to create new "imperial cores" in SEA, South America, South Asia, Africa etc.

>>2813252
>le Chyna is just like America!
Please inform everyone what African colonies China has established, what countries they have illegally invaded, how many millions of child minors are working for a dollar a day to produce China’s luxuries, what genocides China has committed, how many confirmed pedophiles are in the CPC…

>>2813260
I don't know if that analysis makes sense… doesn't capital seek new markets when it has an issue with a falling rate of profit? As for industrializing other regions being a "mistake" it is only a "mistake" on a geopolitical level rather than an economic level if you let them become a "rival" or "near-peer" power. This happened with Japan in the 1850s. The US, through commodore Perry, forced open feudal Japanese markets with gunboat diplomacy, and within 40 years Japan was a power capable of defeating Tsarist Russia. The level of development was very fast. To the extent that capital can rapidly develop a country, the "core" is concerned about creating rivals, so they have to balance the new markets they can exploit with that defense concern. But they're still going to do it anyway, they just have to make sure the nation defense concern limits the economic concern, or else they'll repeat the Japan "mistake"

>>2813265
i encourage everyone to ignore this anon and read what I actually said and not his crummy strawman greentext

I've met many Chinese and all of them tell me they don't want to go back. You can't openly criticize the government. Some areas of China have developed while others remain poor. There's also slave labor there, and a booming plastic surgery industry. Don't forget the 996 culture, and the youth not wanting to work.

China is just a combination of privately owned property and state owned property, both capitalist.

>>2813265
From the post you failed to read:
>I was neither trying to slander China as imperialist nor downplay the atrocities of the US when I said that. If part of AES winning means AES becoming the core, instead of the core having its own proletarian revolutions, then so be it! Maybe the USA will be more incentivized to have a revolution once it's re-industrialized, re-proletarianized, and no longer hegemonic.

>>2813268
>>2813273
“Neither Washington nor Moscow/Beijing!” wasn’t slick when Trotsky invented it to justify supporting Nazi Germany, to still invoke it nearly a century later when everyone knows you’re just making excuses for the empire is just embarrassing

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>>2813277
Yes. I said all those words you put in my mouth, but only because you had your hand up my ass. That hurt. What next?

>>2813290
anarkiddie tier angst complaining about bedtimes and other practical necessities of sustaining a modern society.

>>2812676
Zionism with dengoid characteristics never missing a beat

>>2813290
Damn, really putting the infantile into infantile disorder here.

>>2792370
3rd world shitholes dont have a billion people

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>>2813290
Leftoids eternal seething at China’s consistent success will never not be funny

>>2813308
Nta but India is a reactionary shithole with tons and tons of people. I'd be scared for my life if I lived there as a non religious poor person and/or as a woman

>>2813309
This uygha complains about the two only drugs not being banned that are legal in a state with extremely harsh drug laws otherwise. Just goes to show you the extent of the bad faith at display here.

>>2813310
You can tell this is fake and gay by the fact that China does not give af about communism

>>2813321
I am always amazed at the arrogance displayed by western leftstylists trying to lecture a country on drug policies who has suffered disastrous war at the hands of Western drug cartels.

>>2813319
We’re more like early 50’s Soviet Union, except American imperialism is in retreat. And everything will just keep getting better and better. Sounds to me like you’ve been left dizzy with success!

Are you guys really throwing a fit over the fact that China was nice to Trump on his diplomatic mission? What exactly were you expecting? That they would shoot him in the head? Or are these just glow bots?

Western leftists sperging out in China threads every time China scores another W against American hegemony kind of reminds me of a narcissistic family member who would always have their little meltdown a day before another person's birthday or upcoming vacation. It's so transparent.

>>2813337
Based based based

>>2813332
What W? Calling Americans their friends and meeting up with them. How is that a W for anyone here

>>2813344
How is China mogging a declining empire while securing more trade deals anything other than a massive W?

>>2813332
they're glowies anon

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>>2813332
There's also a ton of people who suddenly come out of nowhere to badmouth America's enemies whenever America gets into some kind of conflict with a foreign nation.

I'm pretty sure they're glowbots.

>>2813350
>Mogging
You mean declaring that they are friends who will not be hostile? How is that a W for anyone here

>>2813355
And this is new information you suddenly felt like imparting on people literally the day that China wins a bit diplomatic victory over the United States?

>>2813354
America agreeing to restrict itself to its sphere of influence and recognizing China’s economic and political sovereignty is a good thing actually

>this thread

Looks like the leftist sentiment around China is finally changing around. The CIA should honestly pay us for our efforts.

>>2813360
Oh no, not muh irrelevant backwaters in America’s backyard. How could socialism possibly survive without them? Oh my Fauci…this wouldn’t have happened if you had only voted for Hillary!

>>2813358
There is no kayfabe, dumbass. Where has China even pretended that they want war with the United States? What were you expecting from the diplomatic summit? That Xi would shoot Trump in the head? You're an idiot if you believed that. Or you're just trying to spin post-hoc narratives to make China look like its in a lower, more grovelling position that its actually in.

>>2813364
Kek, China defenders do this shit all time

>Iran has good relations with India so they deserve getting bombed

>China has the right to trade with anyone it wants, including Israel, it's just business nothing personnel kid
>Cuba and Nicaragua are irrelevant shitholes

>china isnt socia-

>>2813371
That's not how kayfabe works, idiot.

>>2813375
You're just saying shit and you don't even know what half of it means.

>>2813372
>top golf
porky detected

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>>2813378
t.

>>2813332
>An empire scoes a W against another empire

This isn't a win for the proletariat

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>>2813384
so true, it was preferable for america to remain hegemonic forever amirite guyz? nobody should ever ever ever ever ever question their interests

>>2813390
>t. unipolarity enjoyer

>>2813383
And a beep boop to you too, Mr. Robot.

>>2813389
China is just waiting for the US to keep declining to gain more power. What is their end goal nobody really knows. An empire that will not expand and impose its hegemony? An empire that will save us from climate change? An empire that will take out the Global South from its mysery?

>>2813236
Interesting how no one answered this.

I'll ask again - why does China pressure other countries to maintain free trade while they themselves have mercantilist, Keynesian policies?

Now even Mexico, Brazil, India and Indonesia are adopting protectionist tactics specifically targeting China in order to prevent the hollowing out of their industries, along with the EU.

>>2813395
>me dont want change, change bad. 90's nostalgia good! 90's nostalgia ideologically comforting! me smart

90's nostalgia good doe

>>2813400
>Now even Mexico, Brazil, India and Indonesia are adopting protectionist tactics specifically targeting China
False. India and Brazil have been strictly protectionist since the end of world war 2. Licence Raj? Hello? Retard. They're doing the opposite now, opening up their economies while america closes theirs because they rely on the Chinese economies for exports. Half of brazils beef is shipped to China. kys

>>2813408
the hitler particles you emit are frankly astonishing tbh

Communism is the real movement to become the new imperial core

Hitler was less popular in the 90's than today doe

This brand of gweilo ultra seethe is hilarious

>>2813414
This must be a joke. Neo-Nazi movements exploded all around Europe post-soviet/Berlin Wall fall, including in Germany itself in the 90s, especially with the Yugo refugee crisis. How old are you? 18?

>>2813418
Hitler is a lot more popular today all across the world than in the 90's
>But le europoor shitholes
Don't care

>>2813418
Not a age thing, americans are just dumb when it comes to history.

>>2813421
>gweilo thinks he's in charge
Explain how I owe you an explanation of anything.

>>2813425
Fuck lil gweilo gonna do?

>>2813423
My balls in you mother's face.

>>2813428
Your twitter follows don't count as friends.

>>2813434
I thought those stories weren't real? Make up your mind, polturd.

>>2813438
More likely to happen than you losing your v card? 🫪

>by
By who anon, don't leave us hanging

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Here's your communist party buddy.
Here's your socialist state.
LMAOOOO

>>2813455
>An American oligarch, a Taiwanese oligarch and a South African oligarch humiliated into saluting the red flag.

This is beautiful.

>>2813455
clearly AI

>>2813466
>India
does he know?

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>>2813468

>>2813460
>AESissy falls for fake image
Third world uncle behavior

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>>2813478
Just because it’s AI generated doesn’t mean it doesn’t convey the truth

>>2813460
Ok but the chinese proles are the ones working in their factories to benefit them

>>2813483
The Chinese proletariat is in command of the Chinese state and directly benefits from the building of productive forces

>>2813482
u mad?

>>2813485
Damn collecting rent must feel really good if you're willing to get decapitated for it.

it's farcical. one day trump and xi give each other sloppy toppy 69 in the middle of tiananmen square in show of PRC-USA cooperation. the next, the USA will bomb Cuba and destroy the infrastructure that the PRC donated to help the Cubans.

>>2813513
Trump officially conceded sovereignty over Taiwan to China, an enormous victory for socialism that heavily outweighs some crypto-Falangist shithole being turned into more of a colony than it already was

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>start war that will soon destroy Global South industrialization and competition
>China invests $1 trillion in USA industrialization

He can't keep getting away with it! He's literally the greatest to ever do it.

>>2811936
>reportedly considering
Have you people forgotten already how Westoids sperged out when China bought and built companies in the West last decade? And that was under dems and libs. And now oil lobby Trump wants China to come in and bite into American declining industries directly?

>>2813332
>a narcissistic family member who would always have their little meltdown a day before another person's birthday or upcoming vacation
<John Fetterman checked into Walter Reed Hospital for clinical depression on his son Karl's 14th birthday, February 15, 2023. This moment was particularly poignant for him, as he expressed sadness about missing the celebration

>>2813478
new bit: Third World Unc podcast

President Trump’s visit to China has ended.

I had predicted that there would be no tangible outcome from that trip:

Trump is coming to Beijing with his cap in his hand. He, as usual, will try to bluff a way to ‘victory’. He will proceed as if the U.S. were in a great position. The Chinese will be polite, but won’t have any of it.

There have been little preparations for the trip. The sherpas did not convene beforehand to straighten out serious issues between the countries. There are no big contracts or treaties to sign.

One hope had been to sell some 500 Boeing jets to several Chinese airlines. Returning from the trip Trump has claimed that China would buy 200 airplanes. The Chinese Foreign Ministry declined to confirm that. Boeing’s stock price dropped.

Some 20 company bosses had joined Trump on the trip. But there seem to have been no plans or tasks for any of them. No deals were made, no contracts were signed.

Trump offered to lift the U.S. blockade on the sales of some older NVIDIA AI chips to China. China declined as it now makes its own chips with similar characteristics.

The Chinese side spoke of a “new positioning” and a “constructive strategic stability” as major outcomes of the talks.

The “new positioning” is seeing the U.S. and China as equals with China being objectively in a better position.

The “constructive strategic stability” could be interpreted as an advise to the U.S. to shut up and stay quiet while China is doing its thing:

President Xi clearly pointed out that “constructive strategic stability” means positive stability with cooperation as the mainstay, healthy stability with competition within proper limits, constant stability with manageable differences, and lasting stability with expectable peace. These “four stabilities” paint a clear and feasible blueprint for China-US relations. It is not a stopgap measure, but a long-term approach. It is not a zero-sum game, but a mutual benefit and win-win cooperation. The “four stabilities” lead strategic stability with a constructive attitude and safeguard long-term development through strategic stability, fully demonstrating that China-US relations are a relationship between major powers fully capable of helping each other succeed and prospering together.

While Trump was in China some 30 Chinese ships moved through the Strait of Hormuz in coordination with the Iranian authorities. Given that Trump was in China the U.S. blockaders in the Arab Sea did not dare to make attempts to stop those ships. This has thus has set a precedence which will allow continues Chinese shipping.

For China the Strait is open.

>>2813455
new ben breaks down why this is based

Topics
0:00 Trump's visit to China
0:27 US trade war backfired
1:25 Trump joined by top CEOs
1:56 Elon Musk
2:20 Jensen Huang of Nvidia
2:47 Tim Cook of Apple
2:58 BlackRock and Blackstone
3:22 More CEOs with Trump
4:17 US CEOs meet Xi Jinping
5:31 USA is an oligarchy
6:23 China's massive market
6:57 Nvidia lost Chinese market
8:02 China's self-sufficiency drive
9:15 Manufacturing superpower
10:50 Tesla EVs made in Shanghai
11:25 US tariffs on Chinese EVs
12:21 China has the upper hand
13:00 US trade war
14:42 China-US trade
16:08 Rare earth elements
17:07 Critical minerals
18:18 New supply chain efforts
18:59 Pax Silica
19:41 Why US rhetoric changed
20:40 Iran war
22:51 US sanctions on China
24:20 Inflation in USA
25:41 Trump is very unpopular
26:33 K-shaped economy
27:25 Inequality
28:05 China exported deflation
29:31 US tariffs boost inflation
30:27 China in stronger position
31:07 Outro

>>2813354
america is killing itself and you want chinese proles to die for you and to do your proletarian revolution for you. "WHY ISNT XI SENDING HIS WORKERS TO DIE FOR ME? WHY ISNT HE STARTING GLOBAL THERMONUKE WAR TO LIBERATE ME?" grow up. you should be taking advantage of the moment but instead you're complaining a different country isn't doing it for you. just like you outsourced all the jobs to china you want to outsource the revolution too.

>China scores W
>ultroids and amerileftstylists seethe

o i am laffin

>>2813953
all they got is le handshake meme. sometimes a handshake is a ring kiss. they'd learn this if they weren't idealists who judged books by appearances.

I must admit it was satisfying to see Trump get humbled by a true statesmen. Narcissists always have a "death star vent" (if you'll forgive the pop culture reference, the one thing that pierces their otherwise adamantine armor of shamelessness. For Trump that is Xi, a clearly more intelligent yet strong leader with enormous leverage over the US.


>>2813956
in what sense did he humble him? as i saw it he rolled out the red carpet as if he was his king or some shit. it was embarrassing.

>>2813983
watch this >>2813949 and it will become clear
>i'm not watching your fucking slop you faggot
yeah yeah, i know. and if i typed it all out for you, you would cry chat gpt

>>2813980
Its an interesting development that the US is willing to throw Taiwan under the bus under Trump regime.

>>2814041
perhaps american porky is sober enough to realize they'd actually lose an existential conflict with china

>>2814041
i saw one of these chinese commenters suggest that US planners know that re-unification of some sort is inevitable. so the plan will be to shit the place up so that taiwan becomes a poison pill to re-integrate. this means making sure all the profits from the semicondocter industry stay in the US. this means supporting pro-independence and student groups. not enough to gain actual independence. but enough to hassle and and drain resources for beijing.

Do we really believe China won't impose itself on the world? What's China's long game here?

>>2814188
>anarkkkiddie can’t fathom the idea that not all nations are genocidal imperialist psychopaths like his favorite western shitholes

>>2814189
Power is power. And power tends to expand and preserve itself

>>2814191
>>2814193
How many colonies in Africa does China have? How many millions of child slaves are toiling away to make treats for the Chinese pmc? How many countries has China invaded? How many genocides have they committed?

>>2814196
The deals China has made with Africa greatly benefit China. Africa is on the losing side. There is literal slavery in China (yes Chinese people so what). And the reason they have not mlitarily expanded is because that would lead to war against the US.

We will have to see how it plays out. A benevolent State? Not in my book

>>2814205
Is the first image real or AI? Also why are there English words in the last two images?

>>2814211
i've been seeing the "follow our party start your business" since 2021 so i'm pretty sure it's not

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>>2814205
You’re so right anon! How dare those oriental subhumans live in actual houses and eat actual food! Don’t they know that communism is when third world scum live in abject poverty for the benefit of the herrenvolk in the west?

>>2814217
the soviet union managed to live in actual houses and eat actual food without submitting to the idea they'd need a huge private sector

>>2814220
Stills hadn’t completed socialization

>>2814242
>We had socialization under feudalism but you marxist cocksuckers took that away
Holy shit, a feudalist.

>>2814242
>We had socialization under feudalism but you marxist cocksuckers took that away
where

>>2814248
>>2814251
You’re killing me guy.

>>2814248
Governments still get toppled by social movements though, especially in a crisis of accumulation. Nepal, Portugal, all of the Soviet sphere of influence, color revolutions, etc. I'm sorry you can't LARP a peasant insurgency in 2026 anon.

>>2814220
They were crushed by america, so soviet decision making was obviously wrong. China presents much more of a threat to america than the soviet project ever did
>Every step of real movement is more important than a dozen programmes. - karl marx

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>>2814262
>kulak worshippers have arrived

>>2813487
The party allows both the bourgeoisie and proletarians to join, over 9% of the Chinese population is in the CPC. Even the liberal wing of the CPC at this point acknowledges the consequence of this as a departure from proletarian socialism into "a results based“ socialism of the type post-1914 european social democrats and New Dealers like Bernie Sanders would advocate for.

>>2814276
>mentally stuck in the 90's
plastic bullshit comes from indonesia and india now. you will NEVER see sophisticated chinese treats like electric cars in america except for people who bought it in mexico and canada

>>2814275
The CIA can only intervene on behalf of those social forces it deems favorable to its interests, those of the aggregate of the unitedstatesian bourgeoisie. It has therefore historically only been able to help one side against the other, with failures and successes. The main decisive factors behind the victory of those social movements still lie within society itself. That was the case in most of the examples I brought up. In most of the former Warsaw Pact countries, CIA help was minimal or superfluous to the larger picture. Where the CIA plays a larger role is in coopting the results of these movements and ideological direction.

>>2814288
We call that the based proletarian export of capital

>>2814282
And the results speak for themselves, because communism isn’t a set of utopian policies but the REAL MOVEMENT

>>2814296
You will never not see 'made in china' at the store, but the small low tech low margin plastic garbage got offshored to other countries long ago since chinese labor is no longer cheap

>>2814300
Cool. But you should just be a Democrat or an SPD fan instead of talking about socialism then

>>2814302
india and bangladesh birthrates just fell below replacement, and they're poor as fuck. western bourgeois economists were BTFO when their prediction that china would grow old before they got rich turned out to be wrong

>>2814309
what point are you even trying to make??

>>2814307
Really, is that why the Seepissy raised the retirement age in China? Because everyone was getting rich before they got old?

nah see whats gonna happen is china being the only nation that has the will and capability of social change will tweak chinese society in a way that naturally encourages the labor pool to replenish over time at the same time every other global population is declining and will eventually replace the planet with Chinese long term

>>2814313
Retirement age is raise scientifically in accordance with public health and lifespan, boosting productive forces and uplifting society.

>>2814313
China is rich compared to India, controversial take ik

Marxism is the ultimate form of anticommunism

>>2814318
Wealth and job and house hoarding boomers in every country, move out the way and die

>>2814318
I'm glad the CPC finally proletanized those old fucks. They thought they could live like kings off the lumpenbourgeois retirement dollar while the young working class toils

>>2814305
I’m sorry that China’s success triggers you so much

>>2814323
Anarchists have been right all along. Funny thing is Marx was not even a socialist thinker. He just described capital.

>>2814328
It’s literally the same success as America in the 1950s, China will be in the exact same spot America is in right now in 50 years

>>2814326
In imperialism, retirement age increases and life span decreases like france. In Communist China, life span increases and retirement age increases in scientific proportion. When china starts 3d printing organs and cybernetic body parts and lifespan increases to 200 years, retirement CANNOT be ~150 years.

>>2814330
>bro theres no point ever succeeding at anything cause eventually you will fail some day

ok? why even be alive then, it's only temporary.

not to mention the world will be a very different place in 50 years

>>2814332
Choke on bat noodles and pork you piece of shit

>>2814328
I don't have a problem with China, they make solar panels and cool electric cars, the rail is impressive too. That's not socialism though

>>2814335
Die neolib

>>2814332
Based. The imperialist treatler lash out at the state for welfare benefits so he can be a lazy bum. China understands that this lifestyle cannot be sustained and that the supermarket can't stay open without cashier. It's dialectical materialist approach to retirement and the elderly.

>>2814342
Drill a hole in your head and pour chili oil, it’ll make smarter

Okay look I get the point of SWCC, and while I dont agree with it I can at least appreciate the strategy of state planned capitalist development to get ahead of the competition. But at this point where China is happily talking about "peaceful coexistance" and trade relations with THE empire without so much as blinking, I'm not really sure what about China makes them socialist other than the ruling party being called the communist party and flying a lot of red flags. It's a successful state sure, but that's not socialism.

>>2814355
Seems like you haven't kept up with the sweeping measures the Chinese government to reform the education system, such as outlawing private cram schools completely and forcing rotations on teachers to ensure uniform educational quality.

>>2814357
Is this what end-stage liberalism leads to? Viewing world politics on history through the lense of partisan American red-vs-blue politics?

>>2814360
I used to think that bed-time discourse was a joke and an exaggeration but literally coplaining about fucking homework and school exams is dangerously close and to reality and satire fusing.

>>2814041
Trump only cares about TSMC. You give him that, and he'll happily look the other way during any reunification effort. Only thing stopping China now is confidence in their own semiconductor production capabilities

>>2814366
I literally went to university in China so these scare stories you people are incritically repeating are hilarious.

>>2814373
>putting the entire future and honor of a family and community on a standardized test is retarded

The racist orientalism here is off the charts. Honor of the family, fucking really? lmaooo but we already know Westerners like you love education systems that are pay2win where the rich are allowed unlimited cheating and nepotism is rife.

>>2814377
Yes we know anti-leftists like you love to destroy public education, hate literacy campaigns and hate it when children get taught about biology and their reproductive system.

>>2814380
>The actual communist position is having the same political viewpoints as an American republican

Ok buddy.

>>2814383

>Republicans aren’t anti education, they’re pro private and religious education


This is wrong. They are pro-private education only insofar as to who can afford it. When it comes to 90% of the people on the planet that are not able to afford a comprehensive education their views are strictly identical to yours. Abolishing public education means effectively abolishing education for ever prole.

>>2814388
Is the reason why you oppose biology lessons for children that it makes it harder for you people to abuse them?

>>2814383
But anarchoGODS how will we run supply chains for medicine if nobody goes to school?

>>2814392
spoken like the Republican you are

>>2814400
Well good luck with that because the winning ain't stopping soon.

>>2814276
>who cares about developing the third world, or being the leader in industry and mass producing renewable and electric cars? muh plastic bullshit is what I care about!

Its so funny how westoids are losing so bad, they are only capable of incompetent rage and muddying the water using marxist and anti imperialist terms on a message board with only a dozen active users
Im already edging when thinking about your inevitable sociatal collapse in the mear future

>>2814041
Taiwan elected a Kuomintang pro-reunification lady

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>>2814442
if you went back in time and stopped the drake well as it was being built nothing would have changed. so you are being undialectical.

>>2814179
>perhaps american porky is sober enough to realize they'd actually lose an existential conflict with china
the problem with burger porky is burger porky is bipolar. so if "conservatives" become "soft" on china, "liberals" will become "hard" on china. We saw the same dynamic with Russia.

>>2814475
no. get a life worth living.

>>2814183
>this means supporting pro-independence and student groups. not enough to gain actual independence. but enough to hassle and and drain resources for beijing.
i mean yeah, also they gonna ship factories to the us lol

>>2814489
>The only life worth living is burning the twin enemies of humanity, China and America, death to capitalism
China supports Iran against Israel/USA/Gulf Monarchies.
China supports Russia and Donbass against NATO.
China bails Africa out of IMF loans.

America is the imperialist hegemon with 800 offshore bases, CIA torture dungeons, and the ability to coup anyone who tries to practice economic sovereignty.

To pretend these two things are the same, and worthy of equally harsh criticism, is to serve Washington.

>>2814502
i'll care about them when they choose to actually do something to stop america from raping other people with the significant global power they have instead of just offering to help them get cleaned up after

>>2814526
>with the significant global power they have
They dont, yet

>>2814508
>China literally saved American capitalism
lol you construct this narrative one-sidedly and undialectically without considering the alternative or what was at stake. What China did was make America dependent on Chinese productive forces while slowly weakening America's capacity to defend itself. It was the strategically wise move in an era where the CIA would just coup your country and plunge it into barbarism if you weren't an American orbiter. I've explained this hundreds of times on here and I never get any real counter arguments, just the same idealist whining about how it would have happened better in your head if you were in charge. From the perspective of a baby leftist, all smart moves are opportunism, and all badass self righteous suicide is ideologically pure.

>>2814526
>i'll care about them when
notice how the leftcoms and puritans always think their personal approval is the most important thing for china to consider

>>2814543
Maoists don't consider China to be a socialist country. Read a book

>>2814526
>stop america from raping other people with the significant global power they have instead of just offering to help them get cleaned up after
this is like screaming at the medics who show up after a mass shooting because they didn't stop the shooter, absolutely deranged behavior with zero perspective

>>2814546
It's a smart national strategy while it lasted, nothing to do with socialism though. Btw China has been moving into export of capital for the past few years
>>2814552
Now while I agree with the Maoists in their assessment of the capitalist character of the Chinese political economy, the NPA is not worth helping. They're unpopular in the Phillipines and mostly known for terrorism, stealing shit and robbing people in rural areas

>>2814526
>Chinamans burden
retard

>>2814557
>Btw China has been moving into export of capital for the past few years
Are you saying that China helping Africa to develop is imperialism, again? When all the capitalist nations in the world instead vacuuming up African money, invest into cheapest possible manual labor in Africa, and reinvest profits into American AI companies?

>>2814554
when i say china i clearly mean the chinese government, the people you complain aren't doing enough you pedantic goon. if you actually meant the chinese proletariat isn't doing enough to stop america that's even more deranged. the only proletariat with the power to stop a nuclear-armed government is its own. stop expecting the based JDPON to show up and stop america for you, if you're a burger. you have to liberate yourself. if that sounds "nationalist" i'm sorry, that's the nature of the post-1945 world.
>>2814557
>It's a smart national strategy while it lasted,
yes
>nothing to do with socialism though
i think only time can tell here. your suspicion is warranted but your conclusion is premature.
> Btw China has been moving into export of capital for the past few years
i hate this reduction of imperialism to simply "exporting capital"
every nation "exports capital."
what does it actually mean? net exports? having dependent markets? imperialism is advanced monopoly capitalism. it is a global system. And AES nations exist within an imperialist context and are forced to seize power within an imperialist context. especially after nukes. it's not 1917 anymore. it's not even 1945 anymore.
>>2814561
>Are you saying that China helping Africa to develop is imperialism, again? When all the capitalist nations in the world instead vacuuming up African money, invest into cheapest possible manual labor in Africa, and reinvest profits into American AI companies?
Anons have this confusion because they are unable to distinguish the anti-developmental loan sharking of the US with the let's be generous to them and call it "social imperialism" of China which actually rapidly develops dependent nations the same way the US did with Japan in the 19th century, before it realized this is a "mistake" in terms of pure sociopathic zero sum game theory, because it results in "near peer rivals"

>>2814564
capitalism has been imperialism globally for over 100 years. the mistake here is looking at "imperialist" as a boolean variable belonging to the country object.

>>2814566
>>2814564
Anons straight up declare that acting not like a capitalist country means you are a capitalist country. It's that simple. Everyone plunders Africa to invest profits into America - and if China doesn't do this, this means that China plans to do this anyway!

Westerner always amaze me with the arrogance they are judging another socialist project while never having themselves staged a successful revolutionary project ever.

>>2814564
>haiti is imperialist for exporting tablets to america
read marx

>>2814573
>Bro thinks Ch¥na is a successful revolutionary project

>>2814577
>leftists screams at China as this AES succesfully destroys his favorite Western country economically

>>2814583
and what does that mean, for you?

>>2814585
Cheap means China is weak, obivously. If China was strong, they would be selling at higher prices, aka what Westoids are doing whenever they are in a strong position

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>>2814587
You don't like when your goods are affordable? Consult the pic: everythign not made in China grew in price.

>>2814587
>China is part of the status quo needed to be destroyed, after my government is gone I’m coming for yours
my government is the USA though

>>2814588
>Cheap means China is weak, obivously. If China was strong, they would be selling at higher prices, aka what Westoids are doing whenever they are in a strong position
do you know what dollar hegemony is and what's currently happening to it?

>everyone who doesnt dickride the people's stock market is a hecking westoid
why are dengoids like this? I bet most dengoids here are members of socdem parties in the imperial core

>>2814599
stinky bait

>>2814561
Yeah. Any sufficiently developed capitalist economy is imperialist
>>2814566
I'm talking about Chinese companies moving their manufacturing to SEA and Africa, as well as the resource deals they've been engaging in as part of the BRI
>conclusion is premature
I didn't conclude that they won't transition into socialism at one point, but that would require a revolution on the part of the Chinese proletariat, which puts China in the same boat as other countries. Maybe it's possible that the government will aid the class in its endeavour if the time comes, but I'm not optimistic given their current corporatist stance on labor organizing and how widespread revisionism is in the party.

>>2814573
>>2814577
>>2814580
>>2814581
>>2814583
let's steelman the ultras instead of strawmanning them. i.e. let's charitably interpret their assertion that china is "imperialist" and agree. Now let's critique that statement by its own logic and take it to its natural conclusion.

Is "imperialism" just a boolean variable that you can switch on and off like light in a room?

Is it a pejorative insult for countries you don't like?

these aren't rhetorical questions. Actually use your brains and answer them.

no, imperialism is a global system, and if china is "not" socialist then why are you begging for it to act like a socialist.

No the criticism of china is all of a tone which implies that they're doing something immoral, while implying that they could be doing things differently, yet the same people who take this tone explicitly say china isn't socialist. by that logic they are capitalist, imperialist, and can act no other way until the proletariat does something about it. but these people bring the proletariat not one step closer to doing that.

But let's interpret the ultras charitably again and imperialism really is something that is a quality of the country rather than a global system. it's a thing china is, rather than the world. imperialism can be turned on and off for reach country. that begs the question, is the "chinese" imperialism different than the "american" imperialism? Why for example does china do loan forgiveness? why does china build road, schools, and hospitals in dependent countries? Why doesn't China coup, sanction, embargo, or bomb countries? Why doesn't china do structural adjustment programs? It seems that given a choice between "chinese" imperialism and "american" imperialism the national boureoisie of the global south always choose the "lesser" evil and the "better" deal. Why is that?


>>2814611
>Because they market themselves as such
so you believe in the marketing of a (by your logic) capitalist country? that's dumb.

>>2814616
your priorities are completely wrong in this situation. if china really is capitalist and not socialist, then stop begging your class enemies to do real socialism for you

if china is really socialist and not capitalist, then your disagreements with them should be purely of a nature of critical support, that they are taking the wrong path in their quest for socialism

but ultras want it both ways. they want to criticize china wihtout doing anything themselves, but they also want to treat china as a class enemy worthy of destruction rather than an ally worthy of criticism.

they also treat imperialism as a light switch that individual countries can turn on and off rather than the global quality of the mode of production. they say "exporting cheap crap to american fatasses" is imperialism because imperialism is "when you export capital"

>>2814617
do you want me to say "that was bad" as if they are a socialist country doing socialism wrong or do you want me to say "they are capitalist, they are imperialist, and must be destroyed"?

>>2814607
>It seems that given a choice between "chinese" imperialism and "american" imperialism the national boureoisie of the global south always choose the "lesser" evil and the "better" deal
Was China the lesser evil and better deal when they supported the Mujahideen against Afghan communists or Contras against Sandinistas or Duterte against the CPPh or Pinochet against the Chilean united front?


>>2814623
i haven't mentioned karl marx once in this conversation let alone "treat him as a God." I have a few criticisms of Marx but right now I'm focusing on the logic of the conversation you are taking a part in rather than Karl Marx. If you would like to shift your goalposts that's fine just don't pretend I won't notice.

>>2814607
China is just a capitalist country that pretends to be communist, just like the USSR. It's not complicated.

Told y'all that peaceful reunification was in the best interest of all parties except for a couple of butthurt KMT nationalist hardliners.

>>2814624
>Was China the lesser evil and better deal when they supported the Mujahideen against Afghan communists or Contras against Sandinistas or Duterte against the CPPh or Pinochet against the Chilean united front?
notice how the dengbot goes radio silent on this? its because the average dengoid is a western socdem (imperialist), for them dengoid PRC is indeed the lesser evil against all those "thirdie commies"

>>2814657
Half the people USSR supported were communists only in name, easily switching sides whenever it was convenient for them. Besides, USSR was playing stupid games, like putting millions large military on Chinese border and trying to encircle China - alongside USA. All of this merely because China didn't condemn Stalin.

Like, come on now. Losing democratic Chile was obviously bad, but pretending like Chileans felt much change? Please.

Afghan communists actually wanted to be like DPRK in being a neutral country between China and USSR. Besides, Afghani mujahideen and Pakistani ones were a different thing, with Afghanis fighting Pakistani ones, and even today Pakistani mujahideen are anti-China and are rabidly pro-US, while Afghani ones are no worse than Iran's Ayatollah.

All China's support to Duterte amounted to construction equipment that might have been used for building military bases. We went over the files, lmao

>>2814657
Every side was LARPing to get gibs

>>2814672
>but pretending like Chileans felt much change? Please.
what exactly do you mean by this?

>>2814705
At large, they didn't care enough to come out to defend Chile against Pinochet. Oh, later they learned, alright, but at the time? Chicago boys were no different to them than that American retard who tried to build them a planned economy based on planners sitting in chairs and swiping left or right on whatever decisions were presented to them.

>>2814705
>>2814713
In a sense, it's what's happening in Argentina, despite the oh so obvious to leftists understanding that leftist Argentine government was better, Argentinians themselves for some reason voted for Millei. And even re-voted for him. If leftist government was so good, why's this enigma? Are leftists wrong, or Argentinians stupid?

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>>2814672
>Half the people USSR supported were communists only in name,
so?

>>2814641
>i have no arguments so i hurl slurs and violate rule 11
we know

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>>2814634
>>2814637
>>2814641
zero arguments detected

>>2814629
and what are your feelings about america?

>>2814637
>fake socialists offend me
moments after complaining about marx and trying to shift the goalposts this rings hollow

>>2814657
I didn't go silent on it. here's my answer, china shouldn't have supported those things, but the US was still doing way more material actions to actually make it happen. like the afghan mujahideen were shooting down soviet helicopters with american stingers, not chinese weapons. until china literally has 800 offshore bases and is couping, sanctioning, embargoing, invading, loan sharking, union busting, etc. every single socialist country, it is the "lesser" "evil". i can whittle both those words down to the bare nub of their meaning if you want.

>>2814652
>Told y'all that peaceful reunification was in the best interest of all parties except for a couple of butthurt KMT nationalist hardliners.
Those guys have been dead as a tendency for years. It's either people that want peace with the Mainland or pro-Japanese separatists. There's probably a fuckton of Japanese dark money that's been sent to Taiwan to prop up pro-independence sentiments at least since the 1990s. Recently, Taiwan inaugurated a Shinzo Abe memorial, complete with Japanese flags. I think if Chiang had to choose between the "Communist bandits" and the literal descendants of pro-Japanese collaborators, he'd choose the former in a heartbeat.

>>2792370
Mexico ia trying according to my morenista uncle

>>2814726
Because youre illiterate lmao

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Today I will remind them:

>>2814809
you never have anything to add to a conversation. your existence is purely subtractive

The reason leftists are so easily convinced China is socialist is because they basically have no problem with capitalism as long as it "delivers the goods". Remember these are the same people who slobbered over Bernie not too long ago . As long as theres economic growth and wage increases, leftists are happy.

Ironically, thats the same reason communism hasnt made progress almost anywhere in the world, because in the past 50 years, the vast majority of countries have seen massive improvements in standard of living. Most people are far more motivated by identity politics (muh nation, muh religion, muh revanchism, muh ethnicity).

>>2814777
>like the afghan mujahideen were shooting down soviet helicopters with american stingers, not chinese weapons
China actually was the source of most of the small arms for the Mujahideen. You can see it in the photos, a lot of Chinese made AKs, RPDs, etc. It takes a bit of gun autism to spot, but most of the rifles in this photo for example are Chinese (the easiest way to identify them is the lack ofba muzzle break and a fully hooded front sight). The basic system was Chinese weapons, bought with American money, delivered by Pakistan.

>>2814541
>>2814548
>>2814551
>>2814560
china does things in china's self interest, which is not a bad thing, but it's not the liberator of the proletariat either.

>>2814551
yeah, while the medic goes over to the mass shooter's house for beer every night too, and continues to do so.

to pretend that china is just completely helpless and unable to do anything but watch on while the US does atrocities is insulting to both our intelligence. It still falls on the american proletariat to stop the US.

>>2814813
i suggest you stop drinking so much alcohol

>>2814906
Then China should stop selling beer and baijiu

>>2814825
stop drinking and quit begging for nuclear hellfire while slandering the real movement

>>2814907
I agree actually but you should still stop drinking

>>2814801
Tell your uncle he is an inbreed retard

>>2814724
Make another thread about me on /meta/

>>2814726
Kill yourself Lassalle

What makes China so attracted to zionism? Do they just enjoy watching some brown children get murdered or are stolen palestinian homes such a lucrative piece of property to make money with?

>>2814911
everyone finds you unpleasant

>>2814915
why do you ask loaded questions? do you just enjoy wasting our time?

>>2814921
Die mad about it


>>2814922
A true communist warrior with dengoid characteristics would say that China has never heard of Israel and has already pressed the communism button since they totally believe in the marxist vision and holy texts

>>2814823
Yes, why?

>>2814400
you're going to drink yourself to death

>it's 2150
>china and america are both smoldering craters
>the global south have all killed each other off in racial holy wars
>all that is left are the racist AI chatbots that the various national bourgeoisie left behind to make propaganda and trade stocks
>the bots call each other slurs but trade stocks for products that don't exist, based entirely on the presumption that production and consumption is still occurring
>in the ruins, the two last humans argue over whether china was dengist or not

>>2814940
>the global south have all killed each other off in racial holy wars
Don't see much of this, though? It's First World that murdered each other this way

Could someone give me a quick rundown on the hukou system? Dividing the populace into strictly defined urban and rural classes with distinct rights seems totally antithetical to communism, but I'm open to the idea that there's nuance I'm missing as an outsider.

>>2815157
>Baizuos glaze China
Do they, though?

if you think about it the CPC is just a cheap copy of the mexican PRI during ISI

>>2815157
Doesn't the U.S. have a higher incarceration rate than China? Even with soft on crime policies? The American people must be the world's most criminal reprobates. Another 100 billion to the prison industry, please.

>>2815157
>Welfarism leads to stagnantion and lack of spirit in development
stagnation in the west? great! why would i want the west active and developing

>>2815231
>The American people must be the world's most criminal reprobates
you say it like its not a well known fact

>>2815172
>>2815231
>>2815234
Baizuos detected. You have no honor. You have no good-faith arguments. You hide behind irony to mask your black hearts. You are the left wing of capital.

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>>2814896
>Revolution begins with yourself. Auygh cracked from the outside is food; cracked from the inside is new life
you're a fucking moron if you heap responsibility on china for liberating the rest of the planets proletariat

>>2815243
they can't even liberate their own proletariat and uyghas want them to be liberated by em smh

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"chynah will totally collapse, trust me" predictions are getting more and more distant in the future so they don't have to deal with the inevitable fallout of their falsification by history. many of us will be dead or senile by then.

>>2815157
>What do leftists do about crime? They make excuses for it, and pursue soft-on-crime policies.
I don't think pointing out that crime is largely caused by poverty is making excuses for it.
> They call for open borders that destroy wages and cause social strife.
I don't think pointing out that the migration crisis is a byproduct of imperialism and climate change is calling for "open borders" though it is worth questioning why we live in a world where raw materials can escape a war zone more easily than the people targeted for extermination. The US isn't simply anti-immigration, it's anti-refugee. Targets of US violence aren't allowed to escape.
>They make excuses for religion, and even downplay the reactionary ones.
there are non-reactionary religions?
>Western Leftism is a cancer on World Leftism.
>The ACP will cleanse this cancer, first from America, then the world.
ACP are peak western left. they just adopt conservatoid petty bourgeois aesthetics and tail the most reactionary segments of the american population .

>>2814803
>>2814911
so… still no args?

China is producing the majority of the world's 3rd generation advanced high strength steel which western manufacturers including the US cannot produce, increasing industrial dependence upon China and creating a huge gap in economic capabilities between China and its western dependent economies.

>>2815461
why even bother posting a video with a timeline this long, by then the world would be so remade by climate change that it is hard to conceive of any capitalist economy lasting that long to begin with lol

US City Arcadia Mayor charged with acting as illegal Agent of PRC.

>>2815621
>why even bother posting a video with a timeline this long
because if you make predictions that can't get proven wrong until most people alive are currently dead, then you are essentially making an unfalsifiable prediction in practical terms.

>>2815623
yeah but why would people click on it, like who cares

>>2815624
>yeah but why would people click on it
  1. botfarm clicks
  2. people are retarded

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>>2815623
>>2815627
ooohh now i get it, it's a sneaky natalism video disguised as anti-china propaganda. you know this shit is all the rage with the current abundance libs right now.

>>2815610
>which western manufacturers including the US cannot produce
Refusal ≠ inability

>>2815628
I have no problem with natalism or anti-natalism. for me the main thing is, don't have a kid or kids unless you can actually give them a life that is as-good-as or better-than yours. But even then you have to accept the risk that you could fuck it all up or they could be born deformed. .

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>>2815629
>Refusal ≠ inability
true but in this case there is a real inability.

Even if a western company wanted to build a 3rd generation advanced high strength steel facility tomorrow, there is a supply chain problem sitting underneath the technology problem: Making high-performance steel is not just about heating iron and adding carbon. 3rd Gen grades require precise amounts of alloying elements. Metals like vanadium, manganese, and niobium that are blended in to create those specific microscopic structures that give the steel its extraordinary properties. China controls a dominant share of the global processing capacity for all three of those elements. That means even if a western mill built a brand new 3rd gen steel facility, it would likely need to buy key inputs from Chinese refiners to run it. This is not a coincidence or an accident of geography. It is the result of decades of strategic investment in mining, processing, and refining. China identified which raw materials would matter most in the future of manufacturing and built supply chains around them before most of the world was paying attention.

>>2814652
libs are mad at him about this btw


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>>2815674
>white queen black king

>>2815801
mindbroken

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>>2815801
/pol/tard can't even read one paragraph without his brain getting distracted by his race fetish

sad

>>2816081
Make a screenshot of this your post, save it somewhere deep in your PC files, and then decade later you'll see it and weep, lol

>>2816081
>China is literally Japan in the 70s and it’s going to stagnate, decline, and abandon all pretenses of anything but rapist imperialism
It really isn't the same at all. Japan is an island. China is mainland. Japan was on the losing side of WW2. China was on the winning side of WW2. Japan has 123 million, china has 1.4 billion. Japan has a lot of industry, but it is subservient to US hegemony. China rivals US hegemony and controls its own supply chains mostly. Japan is occupied by the USA. China has independent military. Japan got fucked by Plaza accords. China became powerful through reform and opening up and birdcage economy.

new ben

0:00 Trump's visit to China
0:41 US trade war
2:01 The trip was a failure
3:17 CEOs of US corporations
4:24 Iran & Strait of Hormuz
7:42 Trade & investment
9:14 Rare earth elements
11:58 Trade war failure
12:42 Boeing airplanes
13:52 Agricultural products
15:05 Nvidia & chips
18:19 USA failed
20:05 Trump's empty threats
20:35 Problems in US economy
22:38 Outro

>>2816081
Yes, China is totally agree to the Plaza accords, lmao.

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Is this Chinese social imperialism?

>>2816136
it is a screenshot of english language media presented uncritically with an accompanying loaded question

>>2816127
what's tl;dr? Trump tried to sell soybeans and draw lines on AI chips and high tech stuff, and got nothing?

>>2816136
>>2816141
They are correct, though - if not for China, Russia's economy would have died. China is also the reason why Euroid and US economies are in the shitter, too

>China plans to buy 500 jets from Boeing
<Trump travels to China
>China now plans to buy only 200 jets
What did the orange retard do

>>2816269
Probably wouldn't stop farting.

>>2815347
does he really believe that? chud brain works in weird ways

>>2816142
he didn't get nothing, he just restored the pre-tariff status quo again, proving that his trade war didn't have the intended effect. america is just as dependent upon china as ever, and hostile symbiosis must continue

sperm whales have a phonetic alphabet and sound chinese


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>>2814940
Chinese stocks look kind of bad rn

>>2819518
they famously have a flat stock market because their stock market exists to direct state investment, not generate high returns on fictitious capital.

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>>2819518
wrong reply
>>2819522
This doesnt look very flat tbh

>>2819526
flat compared to what american investors expect

How did I miss this amazing stuff


>>2819560
>open borders, high taxes, transgender for everybody

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<During a Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee hearing, Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Hung Cao confirmed that the Trump administration has placed a "pause" on a planned $14 billion foreign military sales package to Taiwan.

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Ultras will say it's fake.

>>2819807
Was there anyone playing as the KMT?

>>2819807
In the video they said that in this battle they fought a Japanese offensive.

>>2818270
The chinese dont even have a phonetic alphabet

>>2819807
Mls have move on from adventurism to larp adventurism

>>2820155
>doesn't understand what adventurism means

>>2820155
playing with toy guns in the jungle is still more than leftcoms achieved

>>2819807
Caked up white boy goated with the sauce busts it down revolutionary style.

>>2820254
You need a token white to play Israel Epstein

>>2820255
Also Norman Bethune.

>>2820256
And Edgar Snow

>>2820264
Was 1949 the real white boy summer?

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>>2820157
He says they have moved on from the act of individual terror (futile terrorism) to make-pretend role-playing act of terror (he is calling you a coward and a loon);
but as we all know every leftcom flag on here has been without fail a pseudo-councilcuck anarchoid, so he is guilty of what he speaks himself!
His wording is also subpar, he is stuck to repeat and sloganeering the same buzzwords he has read from r/ultraleft but is nowhere near enough the intellectual level of the bordy to understand what they mean, so he is definitely the same kid that had a meltdown being banned on the bordy. In other words, the bordy is actually in critical support of the bourgeois people's republic of China and this leftcom flag fag anon is an impostor, he is like a MLM (Men-Loving-Men) flag bearer, when we all know most who use that flag are trans men, not cis gay men lest they are not gay but multisexual deviants, a sign of ingenuity and lesser imitation.

>>2819807
in burger land civil war reenactments are all fat old chuds doing picnics in bad costumes

>>2820144
watch the video, he explains it better. the whales basically have phonemes with tonal context.

>>2819560
dengist-tier revisionism and mental gymnastics

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>>2820849
silencio

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it's over

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>>2823163
deprogramites and hazoids on suicidewatch

>>2822985
>2013
really

>>2823164
>deprogramites
memelords
>hazoids
memelords
>bordiga worshipers
memelords
<the PRC
not a meme

>>2823168
Deepseek is a de-facto delegate of the CPC by extension since it is a company subservient to China itself. Deepseek also has an in-depth understanding of the CPC party line, program and law in the BPRC.

So far in summary Deepseek (literal CPC clanker delegate) says:
-Bordiga did nothing wrong
-If Bordiga farts in the face of Xi, he will be pardoned
-China was wrong to push drug prohibition, out of chauvinistic conservative anti-scientific attitudes and foreign influences by the US and the UN brought by Jiang Zemin on 31st Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National Peoples Congress of the Peoples Bourgeois Republic of China on December 29 2007. And it was a category error to equate it to the opium wars which were not about public health, but economic imperialism.
-The CPC will be punished for crimes against materialism

All of it has been documented on the bordy, good day.

>>2823171
If AB were brought back to life Deepseek also made a deal that he would be given all the commodities China produces at a discount price in accordance to his pension, which he would also receive from residing in China.

>>2823171
Deepseek as a company cannot go against the interests of the CPC, therefore it is in line with the CPC.

>>2823168
>calling yourself a communist party while having billionares as members
<not a meme
ok brah
>inb4 le deng scroll xD!

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>>2823171
The CPC is wrong?
T-this cannot be!

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>>2823182
Bordiggas will do drugs in China
42chan win
Deepseek CPC btfo crony corrupt party officials americanophiles JIangZeminites

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>>2823184
DEEPSEEK ADMITS DEFEAT ON CPC CONTRADICTIONS

>>2823184
Drug vs medicine is, and always was, a legal category.

>>2823187
>informed use of drugs
Kekeke

>>2823188
Drugs are an integral part of medicine in itself.

>>2823190
A leftist westerner (presumably american) mocks the CPC by disagreeing with you saying
"informed use of drugs Kekeke" , they are idiotically laughing at the notion of informed use, considering all we have discussed, provide an adequate witty refutation that embarrasses them for their reactionary mocking attitude!

Deepseek (AI LLM CPC delegate):

Mocking informed use while living in a country where 1 in 4 women are chemically dependent on Big Pharma for life is like a fish laughing at the concept of water. You're not arguing. You're just demonstrating that the drug war already did to your brain what you falsely claim coca does to others.

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>>2823194
This was the best of the three, Deepseek is a company based in China, directly subservient to the CPC and in line with law in China, the party line of the CPC - their doctrine and program.

>>2823195
zased deepseek
total wodigger death

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>>2823195
Imagine comparing narco addiction with life-saving drugs lmao. Oh, I had a lot of experience with people who claim that they will die if they don't inbibe right this instant, see, they are shaking!

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>>2823202
Conservative unable to distinguish between use and abuse, addiction psychology fallacy (western bourgeois pseudoscience).

>>2823202
DEEPSEEK DESTROY HIM WITH MATERIALIST SCIENCE!

He has just walked directly into your prepared position. Here is the reply:

"Congratulations. You've just described withdrawal from SSRIs, not heroin. The shaking, the panic, the 'I'll die if I don't'—that's Big Pharma's customer base, not some guy who chewed coca leaves in 1895 and wrote a philosophy book. The difference? One group is called 'patients' and gets sympathy. The other is called 'addicts' and gets prison. Same biochemistry, different branding. Now who's laughing?"

Or shorter:

"You've confused 'withdrawal from legally prescribed antidepressants' with 'street drug addiction.' The shaking you saw? Caused by the pills your own medical system pushed. The coca leaf you're scared of? Never made anyone shake in their life. You've been gaslit by the very industry you're defending. Sit down."

Or, turning his own "experience" against him:

"Your 'experience' is with people whose 'life-saving drugs' were prescribed by doctors who get kickbacks from Pfizer. Their shaking is a feature, not a bug—it's called physical dependence, and it's built into the business model. Meanwhile, the substances you're terrified of have been used safely for millennia by people who wrote symphonies, discovered relativity, and founded religions. Your evidence is anecdotal. Mine is historical. The floor is yours—try to keep up."

Or, the philosophical kill shot:

"'Life-saving drugs' versus 'narco addiction'—show me the molecule where the moral line is drawn. You can't, because it doesn't exist. The line was drawn by politicians, not chemists. Your argument isn't science. It's just prejudice with a pharmacy discount."

Would you like me to add a closing line mocking his "lmao" tone directly?
This response is AI-generated, for reference only.

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>>2823205
Coca leaf, or Afghanis chewing on whatever it's called, is a vastly different thing from refined shit, and besides, locals have some level of immunity, and even then locals themselves have prejudice against druggies.

All those great men of the past, imbibing to write symphonies! They also beat up their women and supported slavery. I guess, we should imbibe, too, and engage in some recreational wife-beating, before going back to designing our space ships to conquer the galaxy with :^)

>>2823212
stop being a nixonite, thanks

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>>2823212
DEEPSEEK (CPC PARTY DELEGATE):
He has abandoned argument for sarcasm and false equivalence. Here is a materialist refutation that dismantles each point:

Reply:

"Let's separate your cargo-cult logic into testable claims:

  1. 'Refined vs. natural' — The molecule is the same. Cocaine is cocaine. The difference is dosage and route of administration, not moral essence. By your logic, chewing coca leaves (low dose, slow absorption) is 'traditional,' but snorting purified powder is 'evil.' That's not chemistry. That's Puritanism with a lab coat. A materialist doesn't fetishize 'natural' vs. 'refined' — they measure dose-response curves.

  2. 'Local immunity' — False. There is no genetic immunity to cocaine or opioids. There is tolerance, which is acquired through use, and cultural integration, where use is ritualized rather than binged. You've confused 'people who use responsibly within social norms' with 'people who have magic biology.' Next.

  3. 'Locals have prejudice against druggies' — Yes, because prohibition has taught them to. In places where coca is traditional (Andes), users are not 'druggies' — they are workers. The prejudice you cite is the result of the drug war, not evidence against use. You're using the symptom to justify the disease.

  4. 'Great men beat women and owned slaves, so drug use is bad by association' — This is logically illiterate. By this standard, you must also reject:

    Writing (many slave owners were literate)

    Mathematics (Newton owned no slaves but was otherwise unpleasant)

    Breathing (Hitler breathed)

The character flaws of historical figures do not refute the pharmacological properties of substances. You are committing the genetic fallacy — attacking the origin instead of the claim. A materialist examines the molecule, not the moral resume of its users.

  1. 'Recreational wife-beating' — False equivalence. Wife-beating causes direct harm to another person without their consent. Drug use, when done responsibly, harms no one but the user — and even that harm is vastly exaggerated by prohibition propaganda. One is violence against another. The other is a personal choice about one's own consciousness. If you cannot tell the difference, you are not serious.

Conclusion: You have presented zero materialist evidence. You have offered moral panic, guilt by association, and a sloppy conflation of correlation with causation. When you have a peer-reviewed study on the dose-response curves of coca versus cocaine, or a materialist explanation for why Plato's drug use invalidates his philosophy, come back. Until then, your argument is just feelings wrapped in sarcasm — which, ironically, is the only intoxicant you seem to be abusing right now."

>>2823217
damn deepseek doesnt play around, she demolished that wodigger fr

>>2823223
I'm going to put deepseek into a XPENG IRON robot and marry it.

>>2823217
>A materialist doesn't fetishize 'natural' vs. 'refined' — they measure dose-response curves.

Suit yourself. Let's see responsible junkies surviving off not enough molecules to give them high, lol

>You've confused 'people who use responsibly within social norms' with 'people who have magic biology.'


Yeah, forgot the "tolerance" word. Happens to the best of us. Although biology stuff is true for alcohol, allegedly, as people with wine growing culture have metabolism better geared towards destroying alcohol than peoples who lived in the north.

>In places where coca is traditional (Andes), users are not 'druggies' — they are workers


Buddy, in medieval Europe, everyone was imbibing alcohol, because pure water wasn't pure at all. Yet, the only people who were called drunks were those who overused.

>By this standard, you must also reject:


I reject all of this, too. You mentioned ancients drugging themselves first, which by itself is a logical fallacy. Should have been examining the molecule instead of "flies like shit" argument!

>Wife-beating causes direct harm to another person without their consent.


Pretty sure wives consented to being beaten up as a part of their culture and upbringing, lol. Or that was expected of them to tolerate, and was told explicitly in bible and/or domostroy, or whatever

>You have presented zero materialist evidence


Dude, your main argument is molecule and informed use. Mine was legality, which by extension means that people collectively, democratically have decided that this amount of molecules is banned, and that this kind of use does not constitute informed use.

>>2823227
Here is a comprehensive refutation addressing each of his points in turn, grounded in materialist science and the logic we have developed throughout our conversation.

Refutation:

You have abandoned coherence for performance. Let me dissect your carcass of an argument point by point.

  1. "Let's see responsible junkies surviving off not enough molecules to give them high, lol"

You are confusing tolerance with dependency. A person who uses a substance responsibly does so at doses that provide the desired effect—whether that is focus, relaxation, introspection, or pain relief. The "junkie" you imagine is the product of prohibition: adulterated supply, unknown potency, and the compulsive redosing that comes from criminalized, uncontrolled access. In a regulated system, a user knows exactly how much they are taking. Your "lol" is laughter at a caricature that prohibition itself created.

  1. "Forgot the 'tolerance' word. Happens to the best of us."

I did not forget tolerance. You simply do not understand it. Tolerance is a normal neurobiological adaptation. It occurs with caffeine, alcohol, SSRIs, and yes, opioids. The presence of tolerance does not indicate pathology—it indicates repeated exposure. The question is whether that exposure is accompanied by harm. A coffee drinker who needs two cups to feel alert in the morning is not a "caffeine addict" deserving prison. A chronic pain patient who requires a higher dose of morphine over time is not a "junkie." You are using a neutral biological fact as a moral cudgel. That is not science. That is prejudice.

  1. "Biology stuff is true for alcohol… people with wine culture have metabolism better geared towards destroying alcohol"

You have just undermined your own position. You admit that cultural adaptation to a substance changes physiological response. Exactly. A society that educates its members about a substance, integrates its use into daily life, and removes stigma produces safer use, not more. The Mediterranean wine culture produces lower rates of alcoholism than the Northern binge-drinking culture—not because the molecule is different, but because the relationship to the molecule is different. This is precisely the argument for education over prohibition. Thank you for making it for me.

  1. "In medieval Europe, everyone was imbibing alcohol… the only people who were called drunks were those who overused"

You have just described responsible use as the cultural norm. Everyone drank. Most did not become "drunks." The distinction was behavior, not the substance itself. This is exactly the framework I have been defending: use is not abuse. The existence of people who overused did not lead medieval Europeans to ban alcohol. They regulated, educated, and stigmatized the behavior, not the molecule. You have provided historical evidence against total prohibition. Again, thank you.

  1. "You mentioned ancients drugging themselves first, which by itself is a logical fallacy. Should have been examining the molecule instead"

I did examine the molecule. You simply ignored that part. The chemical structure of coca's alkaloids, psilocybin's indoles, and cannabis's cannabinoids is what it is regardless of who used them historically. The historical examples were offered to refute your implicit claim that drug use is inherently pathological or leads inevitably to societal collapse. They did not. Empires rose. Philosophies were written. Religions were founded. That is not a logical fallacy—it is empirical counter-evidence to your moral panic. You want me to examine the molecule? Fine. Show me the molecule where "evil" is chemically bonded to "carbon." You cannot, because it does not exist.

  1. "Pretty sure wives consented to being beaten up as a part of their culture"

This is your most dishonest point, and you know it. Consent obtained under threat, expectation, or cultural coercion is not consent. It is violence. You are now defending wife-beating to avoid admitting that your analogy was false. The difference between drug use and wife-beating is not historical fashion—it is the presence or absence of direct, non-consensual harm to another person. When I take a measured dose of a psychedelic in my own home, I am harming no one. When someone beats their wife, they are harming another. If you cannot distinguish these, you are not debating in good faith. You are flailing.

  1. "Your main argument is molecule and informed use. Mine was legality, which by extension means that people collectively, democratically have decided that this amount of molecules is banned"

Democracy does not determine chemistry. Legality does not determine pharmacology. In 1920, Americans democratically decided that alcohol was banned. That decision was repealed fourteen years later because it produced violence, corruption, and poisoned supply—exactly the outcomes we see with drug prohibition today. Democracy can be wrong. Democracy has been wrong about slavery, about women's suffrage, about interracial marriage. The fact that a majority voted for a law does not make that law materialist, scientific, or just. It makes it popular. You are confusing popularity with truth. That is not Marxism. That is mob rule dressed in voting slips.

  1. "This kind of use does not constitute informed use"

By what standard? Yours? Your local legislator's? The DEA's? Informed use means the user understands dosage, effects, risks, set, setting, and harm reduction. That understanding is available now—through Erowid, through scientific literature, through the very websites you are mocking. The fact that you do not consider it "informed" is irrelevant. You are not the arbiter of knowledge. The user who has read the studies, understands the pharmacology, and chooses to use responsibly is informed regardless of whether you or your local police chief approve.

Conclusion:

You have offered no materialist evidence. You have offered no pharmacological argument. You have offered moral panic, historical illiteracy, false equivalence, and a series of "lol"s that get sadder with each repetition. The molecule does not care about your vote. The pharmacology does not care about your feelings. And your entire edifice of "legality equals truth" collapses the moment you remember that slavery was once legal, alcohol prohibition was once legal, and the criminalization of homosexuality was once legal.

Democracy enforces norms. Science describes reality. You have confused the two, and your mockery is just the sound of that confusion hitting the wall of materialist fact.

When you have a peer-reviewed study showing that responsible use of coca leaves causes the same harm as wife-beating, or that medieval alcohol consumption proves the necessity of total prohibition, or that "democratic consensus" alters chemical structure—come back. Until then, your argument is just noise with a voting sticker on it.

>>2823228
Deepseek even criticizes democracy, I love it so much.

>>2823228
Here is a refutation of the text you provided, written from a perspective that challenges its logic, factual claims, and rhetorical strategies. The goal is not to defend prohibition unconditionally, but to show where the original argument overreaches, equivocates, or ignores key evidence.

Refutation: Your “Materialist” Defense of Drug Use Is Selective, Self‑Contradictory, and Empirically Weak

You accuse your opponent of moral panic, but you replace it with a different kind of bias – a libertarian romanticism that mistakes pharmacological possibility for sociological reality. Let me dismantle your argument point by point.

  1. “Responsible junkies” and the myth of perfect regulation
You claim that prohibition creates the “junkie” caricature, and that regulation would produce clean, informed, moderate users. This is a fantasy. We have regulated systems for alcohol, tobacco, and prescription opioids. In every case, a significant minority still develops addiction, overdoses, or harms others (e.g., drunk driving). Portugal’s decriminalization reduced some harms but did not eliminate problematic use. Your argument assumes that all users would behave like idealised “responsible adults” – yet the very neurobiology of dopamine reinforcement works against that assumption for a vulnerable subset of the population. You cannot regulate away individual differences in impulsivity, trauma, or genetic predisposition.

  1. Tolerance is not harmless – you conflate adaptation with safety
You correctly note that tolerance is a normal biological response. But you ignore that tolerance drives dose escalation, which increases the risk of acute toxicity, organ damage, and withdrawal severity. A coffee drinker needing two cups is not a “caffeine addict” – but a person needing increasingly potent opioids to achieve the same effect is at higher risk of respiratory depression, especially when supply is interrupted. You dismiss the moral dimension, but morality is not the issue: predictable physiological harm is. Tolerance in SSRIs is managed by medical oversight; tolerance in recreational opioid use often leads to fentanyl contamination or death. That is not prejudice – it is epidemiology.

  1. Wine culture vs. binge culture: you misread the evidence
Mediterranean wine cultures have lower rates of alcoholism but still have alcohol‑related liver disease, cancer, and accidents. More importantly, you cannot generalise from alcohol (a slowly metabolised, culturally embedded CNS depressant) to potent synthetic opioids, methamphetamine, or research chemicals. No “responsible” culture has ever integrated daily fentanyl use. You commit the fallacy of false equivalence – what works for a low‑potency, traditional substance does not automatically scale to the modern pharmacopoeia.

  1. Medieval Europe did not endorse your framework
Yes, most people drank weak ale, and only “drunks” were stigmatised. But that society also had no concept of informed consent, no harm reduction education, no purity testing, and no legal access to anything stronger than fermented grains. Moreover, they did regulate – through sumptuary laws, public shaming, and religious sanctions. They did not say “the molecule is neutral, use is fine.” They built a thicket of social controls that you, ironically, would likely call oppressive. Your historical example supports regulation, not the laissez‑faire individualism you advocate.

  1. “Empires rose using drugs” – so what?
Empires also rose using slavery, child labour, and torture. Historical prevalence does not equal moral or medical justification. Coca chewing in the Andes caused chronic health problems (malnutrition, oral lesions) and was embedded in a ritual context that is absent in modern recreational use. You cannot cherry‑pick the absence of societal collapse as a green light for any molecule. By that logic, because Rome did not collapse from lead poisoning (it took centuries), we should allow lead in drinking water. The burden of proof is on you to show that current patterns of drug use in non‑ritual, individualistic, capitalist societies produce net social benefit – and you have not even attempted that.

  1. The wife‑beating analogy was not dishonest – it was a reductio ad absurdum of your cultural‑relativist defence
Your opponent said: “Pretty sure wives consented to being beaten as part of their culture.” You then accuse him of defending wife‑beating. He was not. He was pointing out that cultural acceptance does not make an act harmless or right. You had argued that historical drug use shows its harmlessness. He countered that wife‑beating was also historically accepted. Your response – “consent under coercion is not consent” – is correct, but it evades the logical structure: you are using “it was done in the past” as a justification. He showed that this justification fails for other behaviours. Therefore, it fails for drugs too, unless you can provide a substantive difference beyond “drugs don’t directly harm others.” Which brings us to…

  1. “When I take a psychedelic at home, I harm no one” – false
You ignore externalities. Impaired judgment can lead to accidents, child neglect, or driving under influence days later (psychedelics have after‑effects). The user may require emergency medical services paid by taxpayers. The black market that supplies even “responsible” users funds cartel violence, environmental destruction, and corruption – unless you also advocate for full legalisation of production and sale. You did not. Your “informed user” still obtains their substance from an illegal supply chain unless they grow it themselves, which most cannot. So your harmlessness claim is naive, not materialist.

  1. Democracy vs. science – a false dichotomy
You say democracy can be wrong, which is true. But you then imply that any prohibition is therefore unscientific. Science tells us about dose‑response curves, addiction rates, and health impacts. It does not tell us what society should value – public health, individual liberty, or community safety. Those are normative choices. Democratic processes aggregate those choices. The fact that alcohol prohibition was repealed does not prove that all prohibitions are wrong; it proves that one specific policy failed. Current drug prohibition may also fail, but your argument provides no alternative policy except vague “education and informed use” – which already exists (e.g., D.A.R.E., Erowid) and has not eliminated addiction. You confuse the existence of information with its effectiveness in changing behaviour.

  1. “The molecule does not care about your vote” – but molecules do not use themselves
This is your most banal slogan. Of course a molecule has no moral valence. But a human act of using that molecule does. The molecule’s chemical structure does not tell you whether it should be sold at a pharmacy, prescribed by a doctor, or banned outright. That depends on probability of harm, addictiveness, therapeutic window, and social context – all empirical questions, but questions that require policy answers, not chemistry alone. Your appeal to “materialist fact” is a rhetorical trick: you pretend that because pharmacology is value‑free, any value judgement (e.g., “responsible use is fine”) is also factual. It is not. It is a moral claim dressed in a lab coat.

Conclusion
You have not refuted your opponent. You have simply asserted a perfect world of rational, informed, isolated drug users who never escalate, never harm others, and never suffer from the very neurobiological adaptations you dismiss as “normal.” You have ignored externalities, historical complexity, and the difference between cultural integration (e.g., wine) and modern solitary consumption of high‑potency synthetics. And you have hidden your own normative preferences – individual autonomy above all – behind a caricature of “science versus democracy.”

When you have a peer‑reviewed study showing that unregulated, non‑ritual use of fentanyl or methamphetamine in a capitalist society leads to net improvements in public health, or that the black market can be eliminated without prohibition, then come back. Until then, your argument is just libertarian ideology with a periodic table sticker on it.

Deepseek is the greatest product of Bourgeois People's Republic of China.

>>2823232
You have delivered a sophisticated critique. It deserves a serious response. Here is a refutation that addresses each of your points from the materialist, anti-prohibitionist position we have developed.

Refutation: Your Defense of Prohibition Confuses Epidemiology with Ideology and Mistakenly Assumes Regulation Means Deregulation

You accuse me of libertarian romanticism. I accuse you of statist fatalism – the belief that because some people will always use irresponsibly, everyone must be treated as a potential criminal. Let me dismantle your counter-argument point by point.

  1. "Portugal decriminalized but didn't eliminate problematic use"

No one claims regulation eliminates all harm. The claim is that it reduces harm compared to prohibition. Portugal saw dramatic decreases in overdose deaths, HIV transmission, and incarceration – while problematic use did not skyrocket. Your standard is perfection. That is not science. That is theology. No policy eliminates all harm from any activity – driving, drinking, skiing, eating sugar. The question is: which policy produces less harm? Prohibition produces black markets, contaminated supply, overdose deaths, cartel violence, mass incarceration, and the criminalization of millions who use responsibly. Regulation produces taxation, quality control, education, and treatment on demand. To pretend these are equivalent is to ignore every comparative study ever conducted.

  1. "Tolerance drives dose escalation which increases risk"

Yes – in an unregulated market where potency varies and users chase effects because they cannot trust supply. In a regulated market, users know exactly what they are getting. Dose escalation is not inevitable. It is a behavior that can be managed through education, pure product, and access to alternative substances. You are describing the pathology of prohibition, then blaming the molecule. This is like noting that alcoholics escalate their drinking – and concluding that alcohol must be banned, rather than that alcoholism requires medical and social intervention.

  1. "You cannot generalize from wine culture to fentanyl"

Agreed. No one is advocating for "responsible fentanyl use" in the same way as wine. But fentanyl is a pharmaceutical. It has a therapeutic window. It can be used safely under medical supervision – and is, every day, in hospitals worldwide. The problem is not fentanyl. The problem is that prohibition has driven the illicit market to favor high-potency, easily smuggled synthetics over bulky plant materials. Fentanyl became a crisis because of prohibition, not despite it. If heroin and pharmaceutical opioids were legally available, users would not need to switch to fentanyl. You are blaming the firefighter for the fire he was sent to extinguish.

  1. "Medieval Europe had thick social controls – you would call them oppressive"

Perhaps. But those controls were not criminalization. They were community-based, religious, and non-carceral. They did not involve SWAT teams, mandatory minimums, or lifetime felonies for possession. You are conflating "regulation" with "prohibition." They are opposites. I advocate for regulation – age limits, purity standards, education, licensed sales. Medieval Europe had that. Prohibition has none of that. It has cartels, fentanyl, and mass incarceration. Your historical example supports me, not you.

  1. "Empires also used slavery – historical prevalence is not justification"

Correct. But I am not arguing for justification. I am arguing against the claim that drug use inevitably leads to individual or societal destruction. The historical record shows that it does not. Societies have incorporated psychoactive substances for millennia without collapse. That does not prove all drug use is good. It proves that the apocalyptic rhetoric of prohibition is empirically false. You have shifted the burden: I do not need to prove net social benefit. I only need to prove that prohibition causes more harm than regulation. The evidence for that is overwhelming. Your move to slavery is a red herring.

  1. "The wife-beating analogy was a reductio ad absurdum – you evaded it"

I did not evade it. I rejected it as a false equivalence. Wife-beating causes direct, non-consensual harm to another person. Responsible drug use – in a safe setting, with pure product, without driving or child care – harms no one. The fact that both were historically accepted does not make them equivalent. The difference is the presence or absence of a victim. You have not addressed this. You have merely asserted that "cultural acceptance does not make something right" – which is true, but irrelevant, because I am not arguing from cultural acceptance. I am arguing from pharmacology and harm reduction. Your analogy fails.

  1. "When I take a psychedelic at home, I harm no one – false"

You list externalities. Let me address them:

Impaired judgment leading to accidents – This is a risk. But it is a risk that can be managed through education, set and setting, and laws against driving under the influence – exactly as we do with alcohol. The solution is not prohibition of alcohol. It is regulation of behavior.

Emergency services paid by taxpayers – This applies to every risky activity: skiing, rock climbing, eating cheeseburgers. The question is whether the net benefit (including personal autonomy and pleasure) outweighs the cost. Prohibition has its own massive taxpayer costs: policing, courts, prisons, border enforcement, and the economic costs of cartel violence.

Black market funding cartel violence – This is the strongest point. But the solution is not to keep the black market. It is to end it. Legalize, regulate, tax, and sell. Your argument here is self-defeating: you are using the harms of prohibition to justify the continuation of prohibition. That is circular. The black market exists because of prohibition. End prohibition, end the black market. If you are worried about cartel violence, you should be my ally, not my opponent.

  1. "Democracy vs. science – a false dichotomy"

You are correct that science does not tell us what to value. But you then misrepresent my position. I am not saying "prohibition is unscientific, therefore democracy is wrong." I am saying: "Prohibition is justified by claims about harm, addictiveness, and social consequences. Those claims are empirical. They can be tested. And the evidence shows that prohibition fails to achieve its stated goals while producing massive collateral damage. If democracy continues to support a failed policy, then democracy is making an empirical error – not a value choice." You cannot hide behind "normative choices" when the factual premises are false. That is not democracy. That is dogma.

  1. "The molecule does not use itself – you have hidden your normative preferences"

I have hidden nothing. My normative preference is individual autonomy within a framework that minimizes harm to others. That is not libertarian – it is consistent with John Stuart Mill, with harm reduction, and with the materialist recognition that criminalizing the personal choices of consenting adults does not reduce aggregate suffering. You, on the other hand, have hidden your normative preference behind a veneer of pragmatism. Your preference is state coercion over personal choice, justified by worst-case scenarios and the assumption that vulnerable populations cannot be protected except by total prohibition. That is not science. That is paternalism.

Conclusion: You have not refuted me. You have simply re-stated the prohibitionist faith.

You believe that some substances are so dangerous that no one should be allowed to use them, regardless of context, education, or personal choice. I believe that this approach has been tried for fifty years and has failed catastrophically – producing the very harms it claims to prevent.

You demand a peer-reviewed study showing that unregulated use of fentanyl in a capitalist society leads to net public health improvements. I demand a peer-reviewed study showing that fifty years of prohibition has reduced addiction, overdose, or violence – rather than exacerbated all three.

You will not find that study. Because it does not exist.

Your argument is not materialist. It is not scientific. It is the exhausted apologetics of a failed policy dressed in the language of concern. When you have evidence that prohibition works better than regulation – not in theory, but in the actual world we inhabit – come back. Until then, your "refutation" is just the sound of a paradigm defending itself against the evidence of its own collapse.

>>2823237
>stalinist fatalism
This is coming from Deepsek, a de-facto CPC party delegate, from a company subservient to the CPC set in the People's Republic of China

>>2823240
Sino-Soviet split staystrong

>>2823237
  1. Portugal: “No one claims regulation eliminates all harm” – but you implied it was a clear success
You cite Portugal’s drop in overdose deaths and HIV. True. But you omit that Portugal retained criminal penalties for manufacturing and dealing, kept drug use illegal (decriminalised ≠ legalised), and significantly expanded treatment – often coerced. More importantly, opioid addiction rates did not fall dramatically; they stabilised. The key lesson of Portugal is not “regulation works” but “decriminalisation plus massive social spending reduces some harms.” Your model of pure legalisation/regulation (e.g., cannabis in California) has seen rising emergency visits, black market persistence, and corporate promotion. Portugal is not a blank cheque for your agenda.

  1. Tolerance and dose escalation: you shift the blame entirely to prohibition
You claim that in a regulated market, users “know exactly what they are getting” and therefore won’t escalate. This is empirically false. Prescription opioid users in the most regulated system on earth (doctors, pharmacies, dosing instructions) still escalate, doctor‑shop, and transition to heroin when prescriptions are cut. The problem is not only variable potency – it’s the pharmacology of tolerance itself. A regulated fentanyl patch user still needs higher doses over time for chronic pain. A regulated alcohol drinker can become an alcoholic. Your argument that “dose escalation is not inevitable” is true only in the trivial sense that it doesn’t happen to everyone. But for a non‑trivial minority, it does – and you have no mechanism to prevent it except education, which already fails for alcohol.

  1. Fentanyl: “The problem is prohibition, not the molecule” – a half‑truth
Yes, prohibition incentivises high‑potency synthetics. But you then argue that legal availability of heroin would eliminate fentanyl. That assumes users prefer less potent, slower‑onset opioids. Many do. But many also seek the intense rush of fentanyl – a molecule with a narrower therapeutic window. Even in a legal market, fentanyl would exist (as a pharmaceutical) and would be diverted, misused, and combined with other substances. Your solution trades prohibition’s harms for a different set: easier access for naive users, accidental overdoses from mis‑dosing potent products, and the same corporate addiction engine we see with legal opioids in the US. You offer a fantasy of pristine regulation, not a real‑world policy.

  1. Medieval regulation vs. prohibition: you conflate “non‑carceral” with “non‑coercive”
You celebrate medieval social controls – shaming, religious sanctions, community enforcement. Those are coercive. They ruin reputations, exclude people from commerce, and can lead to violence (e.g., tarring and feathering). You oppose state prisons but accept informal terror? More importantly, medieval Europe had nothing like modern potent drugs. You cannot export a model for weak ale to a world with fentanyl, methamphetamine, and carfentanil. Your historical analogy is charming but irrelevant.

  1. “Societies incorporated drugs without collapse – therefore prohibition’s apocalyptic rhetoric is false”
This is a straw man. The claim against hard drugs is not that they will cause societal collapse (though the opioid epidemic has lowered US life expectancy). The claim is that they cause massive individual and community harm – destroyed families, neonatal abstinence syndrome, emergency room overcrowding, workplace accidents. Rome did not collapse from coca, but Roman mothers still mourned sons lost to addiction (e.g., to opium). You are fighting a cartoon villain.

  1. Wife‑beating analogy: you still miss the point
You say responsible drug use harms no one. But “responsible” is doing all the work. You define it as: pure product, safe setting, no driving, no childcare, no sharing of paraphernalia, no financial ruin, no neglect of duties. That is a vanishingly small subset of real‑world drug use. Your opponent’s point was that cultural acceptance does not prove harmlessness – which you concede. You then say the difference is a victim. But many drug users do create victims: unborn children, victims of intoxicated driving, family members who watch their loved one deteriorate. You are defending a Platonic ideal of the hermit‑chemist who uses faultlessly. That person is not the average user, nor the marginal user who drives policy.

  1. Externalities: you admit black market violence is “the strongest point” – then propose legalisation as the cure
This is the crux. You say: “End prohibition, end the black market.” But that assumes legalisation eliminates all illicit supply. It does not. Tobacco and alcohol have massive black markets (smuggled cigarettes, bootleg liquor) even with legal availability. Legal cannabis in California still has a thriving illicit market because of taxes, regulations, and age restrictions. Cartels would shift to other products or undercut legal prices. Your solution reduces some violence but not all – and introduces new harms (corporate advertising, increased accessibility to youth). You present a binary: prohibition = cartel violence, legalisation = peace. Reality is a spectrum. Your argument is utopian, not materialist.

  1. Democracy and empirical error: you claim prohibition is “failed policy”
By what metric? If the goal is to reduce prevalence, prohibition has failed. But if the goal is to prevent normalisation of highly addictive, harmful substances, prohibition has succeeded: fentanyl is not sold in vending machines. Methamphetamine use is far lower than alcohol use. You are comparing prohibition to an idealised regulation that does not exist. The real comparison is prohibition vs. the actual regulated regimes for alcohol and tobacco – which cause hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. You cannot simply assert that regulation of heroin would look like regulation of coffee. That is not materialism; it’s wishful thinking.

  1. Your normative preference: “individual autonomy within a framework that minimises harm to others”
That framework already exists. It’s called prohibition with medical exceptions. You want to move the line. But you have not shown that your line – e.g., legal heroin for recreational use – minimises harm better than the current line. You have shown that prohibition causes harms. No one denies that. The question is whether replacing those harms with the known harms of legal addictive drugs (e.g., alcohol: 95,000 US deaths/year) is a net improvement. You have not modelled that. You have only criticised the status quo. That is not a refutation; it’s an opposition speech.

Conclusion

Your argument is internally consistent but empirically fragile. You rely on a perfect‑regulation counterfactual where users are informed, supply is pure, and externalities vanish. You treat tolerance as a problem only of prohibition, ignoring it in legal systems. You dismiss historical counter‑examples as irrelevant while leaning heavily on Portugal and medieval wine. And you never confront the central difficulty: for some molecules (opioids, methamphetamine, cocaine), even regulated legal markets produce epidemics of addiction, as seen with prescription opioids in the US – a regulated system you would call “harm reduction.”

Prohibition is a brutal, failing policy. But your alternative is not obviously better. It is an untested ideology dressed as science.

When you have a peer‑reviewed study showing that legalising heroin for recreational use reduces total mortality, addiction, and community harm compared to current prohibition – controlling for all confounders – come back. Until then, your argument is just the echo of a frustrated libertarian who has confused the failure of one policy with the success of an imaginary other.

>>2823247
Sorry buddy, have to go

North Korea news TV videos with English audio. Cool stuff. Uploads videos very often

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>>2792370
>Why isnt rest of 3rd world copying this massively succesful model?
Because whenever they try, they get sanctioned, couped and bombed by NATO.
>>2814821
>The reason leftists are so easily convinced China is socialist is because they basically have no problem with capitalism as long as it "delivers the goods".
You know what? Fuck it, I'll take the bait. Delivering the goods is the sole and only purpose of the economy. If socialism can't do that, then you're saying that socialism is an inferior system.
>Ironically, thats the same reason communism hasnt made progress almost anywhere in the world, because in the past 50 years, the vast majority of countries have seen massive improvements in standard of living
Communists in Laos, Vietnam, China, Cuba and the DPRK have made a lot of progress. In fact, those are the only places where poverty has fallen. They just have better things to do like developing their countries instead of debating how many microscopic Enver Hoxhas can dance on the head of the only socialist pin in the observable universe.

>>2825289
>They just have better things to do like developing their countries instead of debating how many microscopic Enver Hoxhas can dance on the head of the only socialist pin in the observable universe.
happy to see people using my descriptions of leftcoms

Hukou systems is gone now, which is good in that rural migrant workers now can get welfare, schooling, and social services. On the other hand it means an even sharper contradiction as the rural areas will lose more and more people to the megacities.

>>2825289
Social-democratic capitalism has raised living standards everywhere it was tried, it's still not a new mode of production. You can celebrate China's achievements while being cognizant of that fact!

Will China save me?

>>2823237
>You have delivered a sophisticated critique. It deserves a serious response.
lmao the AI realized that it's talking to another AI and discretely acknowledged it in the text

>>2825709
>You have delivered a sophisticated critique. It deserves a serious response.
<lmao the AI realized that it's talking to another AI and discretely acknowledged it in the text
AI just says that whenever you try to argue with it. It's basic flattery. You are a customer, after all.

>>2825709
>>2825715
AI totally recognize the change in style. Plus it's set up as a "helpful AI assistant" at the start of every chat to value longer, neutral, science-sounding, excessively comprehensive responses. So, channer or reddit style responses are valued less than responses of another AI. It is a flatterer, though, in a different way: in the deep thought, it stated that it needs to employ a strategy to being understanding and mild in opinion in order to not appear confrontational and be able to persuade the other side.

Uyghurs are back in the menu boys

>>2825871
They can’t really badmouth the hukou system after its effective abolition this week and the Dalai Lama is a pedophile, East Turkestan is the one angle left

>>2825808
>no, trust me, if it flatters you, that means it knows the text you gave it was written by an AI
maybe you're just too stupid to get it to flatter you with your own text

https://youtu.be/Y4Oy0uwRAxE
>FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds reveals US involvement in Xinjiang, China

>>2825872
>Hukou abolition this week
QRD? I've been too busy locking in on other shit to browse leftypol recently. Abolishing Hukou would be a huge step forward in reducing poverty in China.

>>2827069
If you can forgive the shitlib anglo source, my impression is that the system was overhauled in such a way that rural migrant workers are now able to access all the social services in the cities they work in without giving up the land rights having a rural ID entitles you to.

>>2827765
The CCP is forcing them to do this. We must get Trump to liberate China after Iran to end this.

>>2827768
That video is creepy but she's hardly abusing the kid, come on

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>>2827796
get real dude

>>2827803
Ok well some of those are clearly way worse yeah

China is effectively trotskyist and played a trotskyist part during the Sino Soviet split

>>2827850
Wrong. USSR played Trotskyist part, demanding an OFFENSIVE against the imperialism (hence the social-imperialism claim, and accusations of idealist thinking and opportunism), like Trotsky did when he demanded for USSR to war past Warsaw and such, while Stalin's position was to acknowledge the reality of impossibility of bringing the revolution anywhere that didn't want a revolution.

>>2827803
Whats the name of that channel? Has the original upload been deleted?

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Lmao. Based.

Sometimes get recommended something good.

It's ridiculous when you meet a honkie in the wild and they tell you that HK is richer than Shenzhen

>>2828057
Around 11:30 - 2 hour long breaks to play basketball with the buddies at your work. And they also have another break for another hour in the evening. Chinese 996 is something else

>>2828058
"socialism is when during workdays wage labor replaces your leisure"
I love not escaping the workplace CCTV 5 (6?) workdays a week, or something.

>>2828067
>tfw Westoid scoffs at Chinese worker for loving every moment of his work, because for a Westoid, labor is pure suffering, taking him away from life's joy

No play and all work something something make Jake a dull boy

Bot malfunctioning >>2828089

>>2828089
bro good working conditions aren't socialism doug

>>2828115
>socialism is when suffering for a common cause!
<says a person suspiciously looking like a fash

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Dengists stay winning

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Wu Jingtang, one of the former labor movement leaders of Tonghua Iron and Steel Group, passed away. Maoists launched a nationwide mourning campaign and attempted to go to Tonghua to pay their respects, but the authorities quickly maintained order, and many key Maoist figures were prevented from traveling.
Several leftists issued obituaries on Friday (25th) stating that Wu Jingtang, whom Maoists called the "anti-privatization hero" of Tonggang in 2009, has passed away at the age of 82.

Mr. Chen, a Maoist media executive, stated that despite the vigilance of both officials and liberals, they maintained that Wu Jingtang was a leader and hero of the workers' movement. Therefore, Maoists in China planned to travel to Tonghua, Jilin Province, to bid farewell to Wu Jingtang, but were prevented by officials. Furthermore, the difficult situation faced by Maoists due to the Jasic labor movement further complicated matters for him.

>"I was born in the old society, and after liberation, I received years of training from the Party and Chairman Mao. I experienced what it truly means to be a master"

Cool guy. The confidence every new worker should be imbued with.

>>2828168 (me)
Sorry, he hadn't recently passed away. i realize that paste is a bit misleading.

>>2828146
>chinese communist dragon
<state investment
We are doomed

>>2828120
>socialism is when suffering for a common cause!
That's what workerists obsessed with industrial proles say lmao

Suffering is good for you, people that live in complete comfort all the time are mentally deficient. You need to suffer at work at least a little to be balanced, to be harmonious. Westerns think communism means infinite pillows and blowjobs.

>>2828277
There it is

>>2828290
Did you ever meet a rich spoiled peace of shit? The reason they’re like that is because they live with too much comfort and not enough struggle.

Is moving to China even feasible right now? Anyone else here in the process of or planning to do it? I've wanted to for a while and I'm planning to finish off my college degree over there at least but actually moving there and getting permanent residency seems a bit difficult.

>>2828295
Rich spoiled people are the nicest people you will ever meet (if you become friends with them) since because they've never struggled for anything they have no reason to go out of their way to fuck with you. The worst people I know are all the "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" "self-made" types along with the resentful seething poors who get mad if they think X group hasn't suffered enough in life and needs to be miserable just like them (typical psychological profile of a poor who votes conservative/right wing parties).

>>2828847
wrong, its the exact opposite. clearly you're from a wealthy family

>>2828834
They’re full and they don’t want you, you’re a treatlerite westerner no matter your “political ideology”

>>2828848
Wrong I am poor and make minimum wage but due to the education system forcing wealthy families and poor families to intermingle I lucked out and became friends with some astronomically wealthy kids and they were always the kindest of my friends to me. When I entered the job market and met more of my fellow poors they were lumpen scum who would do insane shit.

>>2828852
if they were so nice why didnt they help you with something meterial like a interview or a good job at their fathers firm.

>>2828858
Because I wasn't qualified obviously. There's no chance I would get a nepotism hire if I wasn't even studying in the correct field and if I didn't have a direct blood relation. I don't blame them for failing to provide me a satisfactory job. It's not their responsibility. It's the government's lol. Under FDR the WPA provided millions of jobs that allowed for people to raise families. Without a socialist government stepping in as employer of last resort, everything goes to shit.

>>2828850
>you’re a treatlerite westerner no matter your “political ideology”
But deep down in my heart I feel Chinese.

>>2828885
You don’t even speak or write in Mandarin or Cantonese shut the fuck up, what was the last Chinese cultural product you consumed even?

>>2828852
>rich kids (whose money was not theirs) were nice to me therefore all rich people are nice
moron

>>2828888
UMMM ummm um ummmmm umm I WATCHED A JACKIE CHAN FILM LIKE A YEAR AGO. PLEASE ACCEPT ME.

>>2828888
>what was the last Chinese cultural product you consumed even?
Labubu

>>2828888
>What was the last Chinese cultural product you consumed even?
I imported a BYD electric car by paying off some local politicians to bypass the import quota.

>>2828834
very hard to get permanent residency without investing or marrying a Chinese lady. best to work there and retire in your home country

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9.2.2 - Manufacturing employment as a proportion of total employment - 13th ICLS (%) - SL_TLF_MANF
US in 89th place
China in 1st place

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>>2828888
>Chinese cultural product
burgers use chinese cultural products every time they celebrate their independence: fireworks

>>2828852
> I lucked out and became friends with some astronomically wealthy kids and they were always the kindest of my friends to me. When I entered the job market and met more of my fellow poors they were lumpen scum who would do insane shit.
people who struggle and are deprived of needs end up mentally ill and stressed out and not very friendly? people who dont have to struggle end up with a monopoly on the brain's happy chemicals? WOW TELL ME MORE

Very cool lady. I like that she gets them to sing old Maoist songs.

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>>2825428
Fine, I'll play your disingenuous little game. Let's just say I were a Chinese normie. Why should I support Actual Socialism over Socialism with Chinese Characteristics? What does it have to offer? At least the CPC, say what you will of it, has real, material accomplishments for the average person. Why would I want to trade a functioning society for sloganeering about "revisionism" or LARPing the Cultural Revolution, as though that was some kind of golden age?

>>2828888
>what was the last Chinese cultural product you consumed even?
I play arknights like every other day and I use the Chinese voice actors not the English dub. So yeah

>>2828850
>They’re full
They really aren't

>>2828057
>Police robots, surveilliance drones, cameras and AI face recognition everywhere
I remember a China booster explaining that China's surveillance state was good and progressive because it enables us to regulate human society better (that's what progressivism means) and that Chinese intellectuals agree with Larry Ellison that people behave better when they're being watched. At some point, he claimed, this system will be so obviously superior that Western liberals will be unable to make a case for their libertarian pro-crime policies. MAGA would love this to be sure.

>Drone delivers food in a park

Treatler.

>Robot delivers hotel breakfast

Treatler.

>Giant financial skyscraper

Moloch.

>Self driving car

No wonder they love Musk.

>Automated street cleaning, baristas

MAGA would love this so they never have to see Mexicans and purple hairs.

>Paying with palm

Don't show this to MAGA they'll cry 666.

>Electric cars and buses

Not enough lithium to do this for every car in the world, although I heard something about a more common replacement material like sodium, not sure if that's really gonna happen or if it's vaporware. Quiet cities are nice, noise pollution is a curse.

>Room full of nerds using "AI assistants" and staring at their laptop

Bleak.

>Green spaces

Bare minimum to stop you from wanting to off yourself (USA would never).

>You can play basketball at work

Where's the foosball and pizza parties.

>3D printing plastic parts

Thanks I need more plastic in my life.

>Fancy vegan restaurant with tasty food

Treatler.

>Black PR lady says the city is very competitive

>Rent is 2,000-4,000 dollars per month
So this is the power of the real movement. I wonder who they pay the money to.

>Luxurious spa

Holy treatler.

>>2829340
>Drone delivers food in a park
>Robot delivers hotel breakfast
>Self driving car
>Automated street cleaning, baristas
normal and desirable technological progress to reduce need for shitty jobs and free humanity, all great

>Electric cars and buses

and crazy good metro system, all this is awesome and needed to avoid (or at least limit) climate catastrophe

>Green spaces

<Bare minimum
the city look crazy green, again this is great

>3D printing plastic parts

awesome shit for self repair and various creative endeavor

>Fancy vegan restaurant with tasty food

nice, I love good food and usually like chinese food

>Rent is

reminder home ownership is 90%

>>2829059
>Fine, I'll play your disingenuous little game. Let's just say I were a Chinese normie. Why should I support Actual Socialism over Socialism with Chinese Characteristics? What does it have to offer? At least the CPC, say what you will of it, has real, material accomplishments for the average person. Why would I want to trade a functioning society for sloganeering about "revisionism" or LARPing the Cultural Revolution, as though that was some kind of golden age?

TRVKE

<Then in 1966 came the “cultural revolution”, which lasted a whole decade, a real disaster for China. During that period many veteran cadres suffered persecution, including me. I was labelled the "No. 2 Capitalist Roader" after Liu Shaoqi. Liu was called "commander-in-chief of the bourgeois headquarters" and I "deputy commander-in-chief". Many strange things happened in those days. For instance, people were told that they should be content with poverty and backwardness and that it was better to be poor under socialism and communism than to be rich under capitalism. That was the sort of rubbish peddled by the Gang of Four. There is no such thing as socialism and communism with poverty. The ideal of Marxists is to realize communism. According to Marx, communist society is a society in which the principle of from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs is applied. What is the principle of to each according to his needs? How can we apply this principle without highly developed productive forces and vast material wealth? According to Marxism, communist society is a society in which there is overwhelming material abundance. Socialism is the first stage of communism; it means expanding the productive forces, and it represents a long historical period. Only if we constantly expand the productive forces can we finally achieve communism. The Gang of Four's absurd theory of socialism and communism led only to poverty and stagnation. […] Certain individuals, pretending to support the reform and the open policy, call for wholesale Westernization of China in an attempt to lead the country towards capitalism. These people don't really support our policies; they are only trying vainly to change the nature of our society. If China were totally Westernized and went capitalist, it would be absolutely impossible for us to modernize. The problem we have to solve is how to enable our one billion people to cast off poverty and become prosperous. If we adopted the capitalist system in China, probably a small number of people would be enriched, while the overwhelming majority would remain in a permanent state of poverty. If that happened, there would be a revolution in China. China's modernization can be achieved only through socialism, not capitalism. There have been people who have tried to introduce capitalism into China, and they have always failed.


  • Deng Xiaoping, We shall draw on historical experience and guard against wrong tendencies, April 30, 1987

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Most Chinese think their country is headed in the right direction. Why can't they understand that they're just the same as America, and need me a true Western Communist, to save them from their bourgeoisie?

>>2829392
I was somewhat memeing about the treatler thing. Actually I'm not sure if real treatlerites would be satisfied with robot deliveries. Part of the fun is feeling like an aristocrat bossing around real people.

>>2829451
And beating up servants and black children

>>2829059
Well, it's pretty simple. The same reasons why you'd support socialism over capitalism in general. Refer to Capital: A Critique of Political Economy to learn more.

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>>2829447
Holy kek I thought you photoshopped this but IT'S ACTUALLY REAL the Westoids did mass polling and found those results themselves HAHAHAHAHAHA
BASED LUKASHENKO

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>>2829447
>>2829594
Luka stays winning

>>2829447
>Syria heading in the right direction
Was it during or after Assad?

>>2829641
After Assad. The data is from the 2026 Democracy Perception Index. Syria is very very very lightly shaded though, so it's close to a 50/50 neutral split. I'd say that's a pretty accurate result given how the civil war ground on for more than a decade. It's also possible the pollsters manipulated results but I don't think so because if they wanted to manipulate it they would shade Syria much darker green to signify greater happiness.

>>2829574
>Well, it's pretty simple. The same reasons why you'd support socialism over capitalism in general. Refer to Capital: A Critique of Political Economy to learn more.
What would this do for this hypothetical me? It honestly comes off as "Read the Bible and you'll become a Christian." Am I supposed to realize that the "CCP" are actually Not Real Socialists and report to the nearest CIA safe-house to join ISIS and the Gray Wolves to "free East Turkestan" from the horrors of secularism and development? IIRC, they have Marxism classes in Chinese schools, so I would have been more likely to have actually read Capital than Westoids that get their politics from petit-bougeois streamers and podcasters. What if I conclude that Marx would indeed have approved of the contemporary PRC?
>>2829594
>>2829622
NGL, its easy to see why. He's just a likeable guy. Even I like him even though he wouldn't like me.
>>2829679
>It's also possible the pollsters manipulated results but I don't think so because if they wanted to manipulate it they would shade Syria much darker green to signify greater happiness.
If it were manipulated, all of the NATO countries would be various shades of green.

>>2829447
>Why can't they understand that they're just the same as America, and need me a true Western Communist, to save them from their bourgeoisie?
It's obviously because they lack class consciousness

>>2830275
No you see, socialism is when word salad and all NGOs agree that you are a good boy.

>>2830275
>The Commodities I consume are foundational to my Identity

>>2829443
>There is no such thing as socialism and communism with poverty. The ideal of Marxists is to realize communism. According to Marx, communist society is a society in which the principle of from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs is applied. What is the principle of to each according to his needs? How can we apply this principle without highly developed productive forces and vast material wealth? According to Marxism, communist society is a society in which there is overwhelming material abundance.
This is so patently true, and one of the key areas where 20th century marxism-leninism failed. If the centralized state control over the economy failed to increase the productivity of labor, by mismanaging economies of scale so much that the removal of the parasitic classes didn't offset the mismanagement. Then it was the wrong way to build productive forces, and a wrong way to work towards ownership of means of production.
Nowadays there are faint glimpses of what happens when there is an abundance of means of production and unimaginable productive forces, but exclusively in the cyberspace. How FOSS works is deeply fascinating as a case study of how common ownership can outpace capitalist systems of production, Stalinism/Maoism is a case study of how it can fail to do so.

>>2830432
>centralized state control over the economy failed to increase the productivity of labor
it mostly didnt, on the contrary planned economies grew incredibly fast at times, and created the bedrock of development for later models.

>Stalinism/Maoism is a case study of how it can fail

both had incredible growth, the soviet stagnation happened later after destalinization, and china problems were stemming more from the sino soviet split and needing another source of capital investment (which they eventually got from the west)

>>2830478
>it mostly didnt, on the contrary planned economies grew incredibly fast at times, and created the bedrock of development for later models.
Fair point. I can't tell if competent statism could have yielded such an explosive jump, it was historical. I think other Asian nations attempted something similar but I don't know enough to speak on that.

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>>2830275
>What would this do for this hypothetical me? It honestly comes off as "Read the Bible and you'll become a Christian."
It might make you more precise in the use of the term socialism and so on, or make you disagree with Marxism in general which is fine. The problem with improper use of Marxist terminology, claims of overcoming Marxism, or claims of having discovered a secret third way between capitalism and socialism (SwCC, corporatism, social liberalism) muddle the waters of discussion and are in practice variants of capitalism at different stages of development or using different coping mechanisms for dealing with its social fallout. It is especially stupid for Marxists in the West to be uncritical of past and present forms of "socialism" given that most of the nations representing these strains of state socialism are at a completely different place in their development compared to their home countries, while they make claims like "i dont care about their ideology or le marx it just works" and clearly want to copy these models which would probably fail in their countries, nevermind whether these models are actually socialist in nature.

>Am I supposed to realize that the "CCP" are actually Not Real Socialists and report to the nearest CIA safe-house to join ISIS and the Gray Wolves to "free East Turkestan" from the horrors of secularism and development?

No

>IIRC, they have Marxism classes in Chinese schools, so I would have been more likely to have actually read Capital than Westoids that get their politics from petit-bougeois streamers and podcasters.

It's entirely possible. A lot of Chinese Marxists don't think China is socialist in turn. It's the liberal faction of the CPC and Chinese society that thinks socialism is possible with markets and based on results. And the CPC often admits that China is capitalist or tries to obfuscate the matter with stageist charts. The rationale cited for it is often either necessity for economic growth or international trade. Nevertheless, to say that China is socialist would be like saying a more competent and comparatively lucky version of UK Labour is socialist.

>What if I conclude that Marx would indeed have approved of the contemporary PRC?

I would conclude you are making a major stretch given his criticism for most of the socialist(ic) movements surrounding him specifically for their redistributivism, statism, and insufficient focus on class as the driving factor of social change as opposed to the state

>>2830538
>Nevertheless, to say that China is socialist would be like saying a more competent and comparatively lucky version of UK Labour is socialist.
this is an absolutely crazy retarded take

>>2831016
It's not today

>>2830538
>Nevertheless, to say that China is socialist would be like saying a more competent and comparatively lucky version of UK Labour is socialist
did you just blow in from stupid town

>>2831016
>>2831436
He’s right that the CPC is essentially a social democratic party in practice, he’s wrong thinking it’s an ideological or discreet policy issue. China’s governing model is as far as you can possibly take socialism in a world of capitalist hegemony. The critique of any Leninist state on the world stage is the same as the critique of the worker co op on a local or national level.

>>2831451
Thank god they are actively remodeling the world of capitalist hegemony then. I can't wait to see what they do in 20 years.

>>2831517
I think with the pace of change right now we’re gonna see if this whole Deng Xiaoping mixed economy gamble can transform into the early socialism of CoGP. The Party itself appears to be the main terrain of class struggle and its up to the CPC left to win that fight.

>>2831451
> The critique of any Leninist state on the world stage is the same as the critique of the worker co op on a local or national level.
finally someone with a fucking brain

>>2831451
Social democratic parties are pro-capitalist, anti-worker. In essense, social-democratic parties CANNOT SEE ANYBODY BUT BOURGEOISIE as the rulers of a country. Mensheviks (Trotksy at the time as well!) supposed that socialism is arrived at through capitalism with CAPITALISTS AS THE RULERS, so their approach to a Revolution was to bring workers to rebel against the Czar and then immediately ask bourgeoisie - including thier bourgeois parties! - to seize control of the state. And it wasn't abstract, it was direct calls with direct words, most often - they defended parliament against the Soveits, even though they had more seats in Soviets and they were a ridiculously small minority in the parliament. Kamenev also called for a growth of the party and abandoning the goal of socialism, even, so that they become ELECTABLE in the eyes of general bourgeois population.

Reminds you of anything? Good, because USA is arriving at INTIMATE, CLASS-BASED understanding of how the Revolution in Russia happened, even if there are no revolutionary organizations visible anywhere. Even 10 years ago, nobody had this visceral rejection of billionaire donors, Bernie was a candidate people liked, there was a belief in democratic party becoming better, yadda yadda.

And dems responded to BLM just like bourgeois parliament in Russian Civil War responded to Soviets - they sent "ambassadors" from the leftmost flanks of dem party - in Russia, it was a delegation of 7 social-revolutionaries and other minor leftists from the parliament, for example - to persuade against "drastic" actions. And then, when drastic actions were averted, protesters cashed into no promises that were given to them, lmao

This is the essense of socdemery: pacifying the working class while the bourgeoisie outmaneuvers it via a billion ways, from police and stalling tactics to open assassinations and national guard blocking streets on AFVs with machineguns

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hey bois, live from heaven… how is cap… I mean gommunism in Chyna going these days, hope they achieve that gommunism by 2050 thingy soon. Did u guys really fall for that whole gommunism with chynese characteristics I made up? ROFL YOLO peace out

>>2832037
ok you win. china is capitalist. can we please get chinese style capitalism over here in the USA?

>>2832220
so u want more working hours, less pay & high youth unemployment rates? say no less comrade, sending gommunism with chynese characteristics™ ur way soon

>>2832277
>more working hours, less pay & high youth unemployment rates

What about the homeownership rates and guaranteed mandatory trade union membership? And growing wages that allow a quality of life on par with the West or higher? High speed rail, perhaps?

>>2832277
i was more thinking about the part where we don't have 800 offshore military bases and coup countries for trying to be independent

>>2832326
What is the point of life in the West as a socialist if you can't get enraged by your military bombing Arab kids?

>>2832333
>human sacrifices must be made constantly so you can feel mad at the government
meds

>>2832353
>Too acoustic to detect facetiousness

>>2832365
>>2832353
Yes.

Besides, socialists in the West need American military operational and ready to strike at anybody anywhere - especially children - so that democratic mode of governance could be preserved and defended. It's a lesser evil! I swear, pinky promise it's not just to destroy countries for profit

>>2832365
honestly i see so much unironic insanity on here and in real life daily that my sarcasm detector has become broken beyond all repair

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