Marxist-Leninists trying to make the world a better place

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Cake day: July 25th, 2023
  • Cyber Ghost@lemmygrad.mlOPtoMemes@lemmy.ml•"Both sides are the same" people in Lemmy 🙄
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    2 years ago

    That is Western propaganda 101. Spreading lies about the freedom fighters to destroy their character in the eyes of the imperial periphery and keep the imperial powers as the good guys. The USA did that on Vietnam and every other country that it has tried to invade. Always make other people look like savages and their allies as civilized even with all the recorded violations of human rights they have, which is extremely long. If you are for that, I have seen how imperialism makes you cheer, your boos mean nothing to me 🤣

  • Cyber Ghost@lemmygrad.mlOPtoshitposting@lemmygrad.ml•2084
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    2 years ago

    I am making a joke of the book 1984 in which the author predicted that by 1984 the USSR would be some sort of surveillance dystopia. Many neolibs love to throw the book at any instance of socialism or communism even though the book resembles a lot the USA nowadays.

    TLDR: It is satire of the book 1984

  • Cyber Ghost@lemmygrad.mlOPtoMemes@lemmy.ml•China bad, USA good
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    2 years ago

    Taken together, these accounts tell a pretty compelling and straightforward story: a worker state led by a vanguard party has placed the productive forces developed by capitalism under human control once again, for the benefit of the many rather than the few, and so definitively begun the complex and difficult transition away from capitalism and into communism that we call socialism. Capitalists, sheltered and insular in their dealings with fellow human beings, don’t understand that they are not sympathetic characters, so they shamelessly self-victimize in the press in the hopes of winning sympathy from the masses, in a futile effort to rally the necessary fervor for military intervention. The situation looks grim for the forces of reaction.

  • Cyber Ghost@lemmygrad.mlOPtoMemes@lemmy.ml•China bad, USA good
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    2 years ago

    It doesn’t sound like you read anything that I sent you.

    Also, doesn’t seem like you know how the Chinese democracy works. All that I hear is complete misunderstandings said confidently.

    Let us be clear, the Chinese Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist organization. The Party General Secretary Xi Jinping sees himself as Josef Stalin’s successor. In fact, as the journalist and former Australian government official John Garnaut has noted, the Chinese Communist Party is the last “ruling communist party that never split with Stalin, with the partial exception of North Korea.” [11]

    Leaked cables from 2009 give a clear sense of why Xi Jinping aggravates the US:

    Unlike many youth who “made up for lost time by having fun” after the Cultural Revolution, Xi “chose to survive by becoming redder than the red.” … Xi is not corrupt and does not care about money

  • Cyber Ghost@lemmygrad.mlOPtoMemes@lemmy.ml•China bad, USA good
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    2 years ago

    Response to both 1 and 2:

    because socialism isn’t defined by how many people in a country have a certain level of wealth. socialism is the transitional period between capitalism and communism, where the proletariat hold state power and build the conditions necessary for communism. before you can have communism you need to have the productive forces in place to make that economically possible. China chose the route of allowing capitalist investment to help develop its productive forces, while maintaining state power and overall control of the economy in the hands of the Communist Party. they decided that it was better for the country to become wealthy unevenly at first, rather than to keep socialising poverty

    https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/building-a-socialism-with-a-specifically-chinese-character/

    What is socialism and what is Marxism? We were not quite clear about this in the past. Marxism attaches utmost importance to developing the productive forces. We have said that socialism is the primary stage of communism and that at the advanced stage the principle of from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs will be applied. This calls for highly developed productive forces and an overwhelming abundance of material wealth. Therefore, the fundamental task for the socialist stage is to develop the productive forces. The superiority of the socialist system is demonstrated, in the final analysis, by faster and greater development of those forces than under the capitalist system. As they develop, the people’s material and cultural life will constantly improve. One of our shortcomings after the founding of the People’s Republic was that we didn’t pay enough attention to developing the productive forces. Socialism means eliminating poverty. Pauperism is not socialism, still less communism

    as it happens there did arise a great degree of wealth disparity, which the state has begun to tackle since Xi’s leadership took over

    and that’s something they’ll need to iron out over time

    but the existence of billionaires isn’t a reflection of the class character of the state

    you might find this article a worthwhile read https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/