• intresteph@discuss.online
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    I assume you mean the ML and Hexbears, who are dedicated to the fall of the west at any cost, including lives.

    So, I can understand how people wouldn’t want to be federated with that sort of parlor pink bullshit.

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      parlor pink

      dedicated to the fall of the west at any cost, including lives

      Hadn’t heard that euphemism before, but it seems a weird accusation to levvy when the existing western order is already built on a huge mountain of lives, costing more and more each year.

      If anything it’s “leftists” rejecting (and censoring discussion in support of) the idea that violence at some level is going to be necessary who are the ones who would be the “parlor pink”

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          I don’t like how they’ve taken a turn toward liberalizing and “opening up” their healthcare industry so vultures like the guy who got today can get even wealthier off of everyone else.

          Maybe there’s some logic to it, but I think it sucks.

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            And would you agree that by enabling people to become billionaires makes them quite the opposite of communist? Almost like everyone at the top in every country is the actual problem?

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              No, the CPC’s usage of a Socialist Market Ecnomy is in line with the Marxist stance that markets and public ownership are more effective in different sectors with respect to level of development. Per Engels:

              Question 17 : Will it be possible to abolish private property at one stroke?

              Answer : No, no more than the existing productive forces can at one stroke be multiplied to the extent necessary for the creation of a communal society. Hence, the proletarian revolution, which in all probability is approaching, will be able gradually to transform existing society and abolish private property only when the necessary means of production have been created in sufficient quantity.

              The Proletariat wrests Captial by the degree to which it has developed, which is necessarily different in different sectors and industries, and not merely by decree. The goal is full public ownership and central planning, but until that becomes practical across the entire economy, focusing on the principle sectors, ie the steel industry, infrastructure, and so forth that the Private Sector relies on allows humans to have dominance over Capital, and not the reverse. Half of the PRC’s economy is in the Public Sector, and nearly a tenth in the cooperative sector.

              You don’t have to blindly support the PRC, but it absolutely is Socialist.

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                Typical Wumao response.

                You can’t have billionaires and be communism. That’s not fair to the people, which is the point.

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                  In what manner is Engels “wumao?” Marxism is not about “fairness,” or “justice,” but liberation of the working class. It’s about rapidly improving the lives of the Proletariat. The notion that private property can be abolished with one stroke is anti-Marxist, and that means the idea that the bourgeoisie and thus billionaires can be abolished at one stroke is also anti-Marxist. The CPC is increasing control over the Private Sector and gradually wresting Capital from the Bourgeoisie, precisely as Marx and Engels envisioned a Socialist State would.

                  You can’t just uncritically label everything you disagree with as “wumao.”

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                    You can’t liberate the fucking working class when you’re allowing someone to make the billions of dollars that should be going to the working class. China is a fucking hypocritical country and you are programmed by them. Goooodbye Wumao

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              And would you agree that by enabling people to become billionaires makes them quite the opposite of communist?

              I will say, they have at least as st made a show of keeping a leash on them so far, executing ones for corruption/embezzlement is good, I think these types of things are a continuum, if they allow the capitalists they’re attempting to instrumentalize to actually solidify political power within the country I would agree that anything they reach could never be called communism. That’s why I think it’s sort of a Faustian bargain.

              Almost like everyone at the top in every country is the actual problem?

              This last decade has made me acutely aware of this point, regime change begins at home.

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                Those executions are just for show. And change will only happen at the end of a blade… but pointing up, not down to the people. That includes the people of the west.

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                  How can execution of billionaires be “for show?” Are they supporting billionaires, or killing the ones that step out of line? Which is it?

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        I don’t want anyone to die. And I don’t think the civilians of a country should have to pay the price for the brainwashing done by their corrupt government. Practically every major country does this. The people aren’t to blame.

        There ARE people who should suffer, and they are the ruling class and the billionaires. Yet everyone loves to blame the little guys because they’ve been told to. Even you.

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        at any cost, including lives.

        Lmfao, as if tankies aren’t just as blood thirsty as your typical conservative…

        Authoritarians be authoritarian-ing (and those who defend them be enabling)… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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          You missed the part where i was turnin his exact words back on him, jackie.

          If you want in this thread? you start by reading. Thats shit talk 101. If you want to try again, it’ll have to be with someone with more patience than me.