Hello! I would like to start off by apologizing because I know a thread like this gets posted every other day and it can border on (or actually be) concern-trolling, but I wanted to get a rough survey of opinions here on a topic.
Specifically, do you have any criticisms of China’s contemporary culture? Its government? What are they?
I’m of the opinion that there are a lot of low-hanging fruit in this regard, like the patriarchal social order that [whatever one might say about its status in other nations] is certainly an ongoing problem for the matter of women’s liberation. I also think it’s both socially backwards and bad for national security to not have gay marriage, because we’re all familiar with how the US loves infiltrating student movements.
I also rather regret how the CPC seems to be trending towards expanding the role of the profit motive rather than shrinking it. See these statements:
http://en.qstheory.cn/2023-05/04/c_882761.htm
http://en.qstheory.cn/2023-05/05/c_882998.htm
Do you agree with these points? Do you have your own criticisms? Am I totally off-base? Let me know!
(btw I’m also familiar with the idea of sharing criticism with comrades but finding public criticism to be counter-productive, but I don’t want to spend all day listing caveats)
China did try the stalin model during Mao’s era which only lead to new contradictions between private labour and socialized appropriation bc of its underdeveloped productive forces.
just nationalizing every industry dont make sense economically when large scale industry is the basis for socialism. Therefore, abolishing markets in sectors of the economy which still are highly competitive is nonsensical and would lead to enormous economic inefficiencies.
The inherent implication of this is that a Marxist party should not abolish private property in onestroke. This is a common misconception. A Marxist party should instead utilize markets in an efficient way in order to develop the economy as rapidly as possible. Complete abolition would require incredibly high levels of economic development which humanity has yet to realize.
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Aimxin directly discussing ab this topic
Hope this helps!
Hey it’s easier to parse through if you do those long quotes with a > at the beginning
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Thanks a ton for all the info, this is more what I was looking for
oo alr, thxx! And glad to be of any help :D