China is a capitalist country
They focus their government money on creating jobs and control. People will well paying jobs and money for fun stuff are less likely to start a civil war
Rather than the US where the focus is making themselves richer and funding the military
Funding the military so they can quash any rebellions from people having nothing left to lose deciding to rise up. Did you know that the founding fathers intended for there to be no standing army for this very reason? I just learned this the other day.
Jefferson said a central bank was more dangerous to our liberty than a standing army. They also basically told us to overthrow the government and rewrite the constitution in our situation
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
IMHO China is a more capitalist country than the USA. 12h workdays 6 days a week (996), with overtime 16h, no labour rights, no representation, only the party gets that. Flooding the markets with goods sold at a loss, to drive the other countries’ industry out of business. The taxpayer subsideses the loss. And once China is the monopoly, they can charge what they want.
IMO these MAGA cunts should wet themselves at the sight of China. After all, China is more capitalist than the USA, lol.
- Nono you see they’re the “people’s billionaires”.
- They’re all patriots with the goal of achieving communism. It’s just that to transition to communism, we need billionaires first.
- The imperialists have billionaires. To defend against these imperialists, we need our own billionaires.
- China is 3000 years old. China survived without your help. We don’t need you to tell us where we can improve. Improve yourself.
- Each country has its own material conditions. This is why we need socialism with Chinese characteristics for China. These Chinese characteristics mean billionaires. Don’t you understand dumm librul?
Big fat /s.
They’re a capitalist country.
Not how it works. You build a facility that feeds thousands of people for much less.
Maybe the real shitpost was the comments we made along the way.
Tankies are the greatest right-wing propaganda that lefties still fall for both by believing in it and by believing that it’s actually coming from sincere leftists.
China has stopped being communist for a while now, it’s developed into some flavour of capitalist society though I don’t remember much about the different variants. It’s certainly top heavy though like the USA.
Stopped being socialist*
They were never communist.
Same reason the US has the most prisons even though it’s aiming to be the freest country.
Systemic racism to control the marginalized and ensure the poor stay with very few viable options?
Cos playing at communism at best. China is a totalitarian fascist state.
i have it on good authority from about half of lemmy that china is a wonderful place where everyone feels safe and actually there never were any uyghurs, since that’s just western propaganda
Also North Korea is what all countries should strive to emulate.
No, seriously, I’ve seen a tankie on here say that.
Wdym? Haven’t you seen the citizens of the democratic people’s republic of Korea cheer and cry when they see their beloved leader Kim Jong Un?
Also, did you know that countless people defect from South Korea to the democratic people’s republic of Korea???
/s
The second point is legitimately what someone told me on lemmygrad. No, they explicitly said “today”. They were not just talking about the 50s-60s.
Being banned from .lm is a badge of honor.
I’ve heard that too
Because they’re marxist leninist and think socialism is something you work towards and isn’t achievable by pressing the big red communism button.
Just a few more billionaires and the state will wither away.
If communism why has big red button not been pressed?
I believe the thinking is that you can’t really have the state wither away while capitalist states remain predominant on the planet.
They aren’t trying to be communist, they are trying to be “Communist with Chinese elements” which is just capitalism. Similar to how they are a “Democracy with Chinese elements” which is just a dictatorship.
Interesting
Because “Communist States” are just State Capitalism with red branding, next question.
Why does my girlfriend call all the food I make slop?
Maybe improve your cooking?
Maybe
Nah, just pivot to sloppy joes and own it
Ask Jack Ma what being a billionaire in China is worth.
It’s worth $30 billion.
Being humbled by the state while remaining a billionaire does not justify the existence of the billionaire capitalist class.
Well yeah, he criticized a government labeled “communist”. He’s lucky to be alive. But, he’s still a billionaire and has homes in half a dozen countries.
I’m just trying to connect your reasoning here. Are you implying that billionaires should be brought to heel by popular power or private property should be respected? Do you believe property is an essential right that should give you a megaphone or not? I’m just saying billionaires don’t particularly laugh at Chinese state directives as in the meme.
Which part is causing confusion?
I dunno man, I put words together and put a question mark behind them. I don’t know if that means anything to you or not.
Now I’m the confused one
