>>2634357I respect this because he is honest. I'm posting this from Beijing, and the first thing that struck me about China (beside the smog) was not how it's like a literally 1984 no freedom allowed dictatorship like redditors say, nor how it's an absolute paradise for the proletariat like leftypol says, but how…normal it is, as a Westoid. You go to the mall and you have every chain you would except in a Western country: McDonalds, KFC, Uniqlo, Zara, Samsung phones… I was excepting a cultural shock, but beyond paying with your phone, people spitting on the floor and being more extroverted, security checks, unique ancient architecture and occasional huge crowds, it's business as usual. I had more of a cultural shock in Turkey to be frank.
China manages their economy better than most Western countries, people are friendly, I feel good here and if I could stay for 3 months I would, but I don't see how it is such a step forward for the communist movement to "support" them on the English-speaking internet.
I just want good diplomatic relationships between my country and China but that's it, the Chinese proletariat will decide for itself if they still want soft social democracy like they have right now in the future, or something else.
Stop soyfacing over China on the internet, go there and see for yourself, learn more about internal debates within the country, and then maybe reconsider your positions. I can see how attractive it can be for an American who has to pay $40,000 for an ambulance, but I don't see anything revolutionary here. I don't understand why wanting socio-economic reforms in a Western country is supposed to be bad, but when it happens within the market economy of China, suddenly it's epic. If this is modern communism then Bernstein was completely right and you should immediately stop simping for Stalin or Bordiga or whatever.