“The world needs justice, not hegemony. Big countries should treat smaller ones equals, instead of acting as a hegemon, imposing their will on others or interfering in their internal affairs."

  • Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, Volume III
  • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org
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    6 days ago

    If the head of power doesn’t let go if said power there is no “communism” happening. Its a dictatorship. Capitalism isnt a political style its the economic system that the world participates in. China is one of the biggest participants.

    You need to read a lot more thats not propaganda.

    Other things being bad doesn’t make something else good. Take your blinders off.

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      6 days ago

      just market socialism btw, a transition phase between capitalism and proper socialism, also it doesn’t say “communist” it says “socialist”, a mixed economy is required right now because as you said yourself, the world runs on capitalism, for market socialism to work as a transitional stage you must not let the capitalist economy over take the whole system (which china has achieved by the government controlling the billionaires and not the other way around), when the US falls from their position as the main superpower and china takes over, the transitional stage wouldn’t be needed anymore

      • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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        6 days ago

        If government controls the billionaires but still allows them to exist, what good is that government to 99% of the country?

        Dictatorships are neither anti-imperial nor socialist. It was true for USSR, it keeps being true for modern russia, PRC and DPRK.

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          6 days ago

          in the stage where the economy is mixed between socialism and capitalism (aka market socialism), billionaires are stlll needed to stimulate the economy, they don’t pose a threat to the rest of the country when controlled (which is how it is in china, considering they have a near zero poverty rate, about 300,000 out of 1.8 billion), you can deal with the billionaires when they are no longer needed (aka when the transition is completely)

          • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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            6 days ago

            First of all, “near zero poverty rate” is a flat out lie. The existence of billionaires at all is a threat to working class and pretending otherwise is a delusion.

            Second of all, “needed to stimulate the economy” is not socialism, market or otherwise. It’s capitalism in a red coat. Plus, it doesn’t actually explain what value billionaires bring for the working class. What do they do that cannot be done without the massive wealth inequality they create?

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              6 days ago

              gang do ur own research, simply googing “china poverty rate” would have sufficed, I never said it was full on socialism, it’s socialism with a capitalist economy (mainly because the global system is capitalism, adopting full on socialism right now would be death sentence, see venezuela) but when america falls and china becomes the main superpower, than full on socialism can be achieved