First of all, I want to say that it’s wonderful to see all of you here, and your critical support of the nation I proudly call home. But more and more recently, especially reading through Chinese internet too, there has been a sense of overconfidence and overglorification of China. It is honestly a little worrying at times for me, because as much as I love my homeland and is proud of what we are doing, I know full and well that we are still a long way to go. I see this sentiment of China being the glorious land far away as a bastion and utopia against Western Imperialism and while there’s a lot of truth behind that sentiment, and I definitely understand why one not living in China would choose to believe this (I live in the US now and I understand your pain, fellow US comrades). I just want to remind everyone to exercise dialectal materialism on this subject and try to look at China in a less idealised way. We cannot grow to be better without recognising our mistakes. Anyways that is my little message to you all. Have a nice day!
I don’t think capitalism or markets can exist without the state. I’m reading the book Debt: The First 5000 Years, and the author is making it clear that based on the anthropological record, capital emerges are a form of domination more so than a means of exchange. It’s always been like that.
China’s government aims to serve the people using whatever means work best. They draw tools from capitalism and socialism to do that. But it is different from the brutality we are subjected to in the west.