[link to a literal violent rebellion] [this is evidence that USSR was against workers democracies]
Sure, Jan.
Ultimately had to listen to the Supreme Soviets (sic). Nice.
Correct, because the Supreme Soviet (singular) was accountable to the entire country whereas any given factory was only accountable to its local workers. The idea that a factory full of people who were peasant farmers 10 years ago could understand 100% of the impacts of their decisions on the health and wellbeing of millions of people across the country in a time before computers and digital information processing and communication is just silly.
Both the USSR and China have had more democracy and more workplace democracy than any country in the Western sphere of influence ever.
[1 Dead Link and 1 Link to Chinese slave labor]
Your counter examples don’t disprove my statement at all. Yes, there’s slavery in the Chinese system. That’s true. There’s also still more workplace democracy in China than any Western nation has ever had.
Billionaires are actually good as long as China controls them
On the contrary. Billionaires are an emergent aspect of rapid industrialization. China has chosen to capture them instead of prevent them, because preventing them has deleterious effects on society.
The conclusion of that article even says that it’s good to ‘make room for the hyper selfish so that they don’t leave China and cause brain-drain’. Like holy shit.
Brain drain has been a significant problem for every single revolutionary project, because that’s how human motivation works. The article is correct that directing the selfish aspects of humans towards the development and support of a revolutionary state has positive effects.
The ML countries are the only countries that have ever done anything remotely successful in breaking from global imperial capitalism
By… Becoming capitalists. Very 4D chess.
Not a single human society has ever industrialized without going through the capitalist mode of production. When you figure out how to do it, you let everyone know, cool? Rojava hasn’t done it, by the way.
Sure, Jan.
Correct, because the Supreme Soviet (singular) was accountable to the entire country whereas any given factory was only accountable to its local workers. The idea that a factory full of people who were peasant farmers 10 years ago could understand 100% of the impacts of their decisions on the health and wellbeing of millions of people across the country in a time before computers and digital information processing and communication is just silly.
Your counter examples don’t disprove my statement at all. Yes, there’s slavery in the Chinese system. That’s true. There’s also still more workplace democracy in China than any Western nation has ever had.
On the contrary. Billionaires are an emergent aspect of rapid industrialization. China has chosen to capture them instead of prevent them, because preventing them has deleterious effects on society.
Brain drain has been a significant problem for every single revolutionary project, because that’s how human motivation works. The article is correct that directing the selfish aspects of humans towards the development and support of a revolutionary state has positive effects.
Not a single human society has ever industrialized without going through the capitalist mode of production. When you figure out how to do it, you let everyone know, cool? Rojava hasn’t done it, by the way.