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Hopefully the links persuade me because i don’t LIKE being anti-China when so many other leftists look up to them.

I just don’t understand how having billionaires impacts their ability to partake of the global economy. Why can’t they just tax income over $100,000 at 100% or something? That’s a genuine question. Why not?

The number one most important aspect of communism, to me, is workers not being exploited for their excess labour value and receiving the full value of their labour. If you don’t have that, what’s the point in claiming to be communist? And China doesn’t have that. China’s workers are exploited just like many capitalist countries, and if you take income inequality as a measure of exploitation (which I think works well) then China’s workers are exploited MORE than workers in many capitalist countries. And so, as somebody who thinks that ending exploitation of workers and allowing them to receive the full value of their labour is the most important aspect of communism, that’s why I struggle to support China. And so far nothing I’ve read about it justifies this to me. I hope your links change that.

Thank you for those links, I’ll check them out later this evening if I have time.

i just don’t understand why its wealth inequality and wage inequality are so great. Why do billionaires exist in China at all?

in what way? would say that this is a frustratingly typical response to any criticism of China that I’ve seen quite often in some leftist circles.

I’d describe myself as an SJW in some ways, and also as a communist. I mean, SJW-ism, insofar as it is a real ideology and not just a meme, is very compatible with communism and other leftist ideologies. There is a strong focus in both on fighting oppression. It’s an odd question that you’ve posed, I think.

i have no respect for China, and i don’t understand why other leftists support it. They aren’t communist or socialist, they just aren’t. You only have to look at their wealth and wage inequality stats to realise this.