• poVoq@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 years ago

    You go ask some people living in Shanghai what they think about their “communism” while shopping Gucchi handbags and driving a Tesla.

    Or those slaving away at Foxconn to produce iPhones for the west… really nice “communism” for sure.

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      3 years ago

      87.6% of young Chinese identify with Marxism, and the party has 95 million members. Obviously though, you understand what communism is or how to achieve it much better.

      I love how you can’t wrap your head around that the real world can’t live up to some Platonic ideal of society. What you’re doing here is creating a false dichotomy where anything that’s not a perfect classless and stateless society is capitalism. And apparently there is magic dust you have to sprinkle to turn a capitalist society into a communist one in a blink of an eye.

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        3 years ago

        Turning your country into a turbo-capitalist place, while paying a lip-service to socialism is going to make many people want some real “Marxism” indeed.

        And you should try to think a bit harder on how a society grown rich and fundamentally dependent on Capitalist means of production is going to magically turn into a communist one… that’s going to need some magic dust indeed.

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          3 years ago

          Ah yes, a turbo-capitalist place where all the essential economy is publicly owned, that builds massive infrastructure, lifted over a billion people out of poverty, and handled the pandemic. I am starting to think you don’t even understand what capitalism is. Ideologically blind-sighted it seems.