Uyghur Workers Are Moved to Factories Across China to Supply Global Brands
Uyghur Workers Are Moved to Factories Across China to Supply Global Brands
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Uyghur Workers Are Moved to Factories Across China to Supply Global Brands
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capitalists gonna capitalist. nothing surprising here.
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Those damn capitalists in charge of checks notes the Chinese Communist Party!
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Wait til someone explains the DPRK to you...
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There's nothing functionally communist about the government of China.
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Those damn democrats in charge of the checks notes the Democratic People's Republic of Korea!
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You might be surprised to discover they aren’t all that communist
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You have been banned from Lemmy.ml
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The CCP acts like just because the state owns major enterprises then the workers - through the state - own the means of production. That doesn't hold up when the state does not adequately represent the will of the workers. Never is this contradiction more clear than when the Chinese state suppresses workers' attempts to organize on their own terms.
China is communist in the same way that the US is democratic, which is to say that it's a sham to keep up appearances that is suspended when convenient for the few who hold real power.
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I am happy to criticise the US system at any point, but the notion that it's a democracy only on paper is a misrepresentation of reality.
They managed to vote Trump out of office, and back in. Something that wouldn't have been possible if it were not a democracy.
Now the system of course has loads of difficulties and is suffering from extreme economic inequality, that leads to an immense influence of rich people over the undereducated masses, but they still have to spend their money for massive propaganda campaigns to win votes for their side, so the fundamental processes are still democratic.
We're gonna see if that remains the case by the end of Trump's second term, though.
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And Google can't do evil! It's on their motto!
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"Democratic people's republic of North Korea"
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username checks out
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No politician has ever lied in the history of ever.
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Your post would be just as valid without the last paragraph.
The other point I would add is it is hard to be socialist if you have a stock market and investment banking.
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