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Feed_el_Castro [he/him, comrade/them]

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  • Xinjiang debunk resource?

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  • Best resource: there is no photographic or video evidence.

    We've seen a livestreamed genocide for the past years, people from Gaza bravely smuggling videos out despite the best attempts of the Zionazi regime controlling their internet and their borders.

    Yet there is not one shred of video evidence of anything remotely resembling a genocide in Xinjiang.

    To anyone disregarding this as "le Chinese control of internet", you're never going to convince them otherwise

  • Hot take: Getting older rocks

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  • And happen to live in a capitalist society where the needs and capabilities of people with disabilities aren't properly addressed

  • Had a 1v9 argument about China and Cuba being socialist at my org

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  • I did make the argument! The response was that socialism isn't when the working class gets the breadcrumbs that come with development, which itself is possible in China because of the special form of state capitalism they have.

    Deeply unserious IMO, I asked them why the rest of the capitalist world doesn't shift towards this model seeing how well it works, they simply said it's not how it works and I can't compare the material conditions of China and the west.

  • Had a 1v9 argument about China and Cuba being socialist at my org

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  • Thanks for the elaborate response. I actually bought Rockhill's book and is on my reading list, I'm pushing it up right now! I've heard Rockhill already, some talks of his which are uploaded to YouTube by ChemicalMind, and some interviews to podcasts like The Deprogram, but I'm so interested in understanding the actual, specific underlying reasons for the existence of the so-called compatible left

  • Had a 1v9 argument about China and Cuba being socialist at my org

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  • If they won't even accept Cuba is socialist then to these people there is literally no socialism anywhere in the world

    This is exactly European Marxism: the only real socialist in the world is my tiny organization without the slightest political power.

  • Had a 1v9 argument about China and Cuba being socialist at my org

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  • They despise them, rightfully so

  • Had a 1v9 argument about China and Cuba being socialist at my org

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  • Exactly right: socialism is amazing because it gives us the scientific tools to evaluate the best analysis of history, of economy, of strategies and of action with the goal of making peoples' lives better. Socialism is good because socialism works to this end, and not because it's a set of strict definitions.

  • Had a 1v9 argument about China and Cuba being socialist at my org

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  • Behind the question "is China socialist?", underlies the question "do we recognise the Chinese model as a successful contender in the path to Communism?". The question of support for a socialist movement often hinges on it being even considered socialist, which is of course full of greys and not strictly defined. "Does China mostly operate under a capitalist mode of production?" is a measurable question about economics which has a clear answer, "is China capitalist?" is a judgement of its successes, its goals, and whether we would pursue a similar trend if we were in the same conditions as they are. I personally don't even consider the Chinese model applicable to Europe as it is an already industrialized continent and instead believe that a socialist planned economy is more realistic, but I think the question of support to past socialist movements is an important one in the struggle for future socialism.

  • Had a 1v9 argument about China and Cuba being socialist at my org

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  • by instead of respecting democratic centralism and party discipline going and posting about it in public online spaces you are sorta in the wrong here imo.

    I'm posting it anonymously without mentioning my org. A violation of democratic centralism would be to publicly rant about it Trotsky style. The act of posting this here exposes me to other viewpoints and research such as yours, which contributes to my ideological growth.

    Regarding your explanation of M-C-M', China does operate to a certain extent according to the capitalist mode of production, this much is obvious, that doesn't mean that they can be described a capitalist country anymore than you'd describe Lenin's New Economic Policy as capitalist, or agriculture during the Stalin eras as capitalist (most farmers were organized in cooperatives which did reproduce the M-C-M' cycle and operated under the profit motive, only with most grain being sold not on free markets but at fixed prices designated by the state).

    Whether China is a socialist country goes beyond the dominant mode of production, and any analysis lumping together China with, say, Germany or the USA, is bad analysis. China being a dictatorship of the proletariat is a much more useful definition of it being a socialist country, note I said socialist and not communist. Nowhere in your comment do you mention that China developed in a world dominated by western capital. Failing to acknowledge the realities of siege socialism / actually existing socialism in the current world and focusing exclusively on the internal economic relations will lead to ultra-left analysis.

    It does remain to see whether China will dismantle the global systems of imperialist oppression, but the fact that they are a dictatorship of the proletariat would lead one to think that this is their endgoal in the long term, which they themselves say is communism, and that their current geopolitical stance and economic relation with the rest of the world is a matter of strategy and not of ideology. It's also lazy and selfish to expect other countries to do the work of revolution for you, and while I agree there should be criticism of China and even a degree of skepticism, it should primarily come from support of its project and not from rejection of their extremely successful model.

    Imperialism is a world system, any participation in the global economy as a winner (and china is increasingly a winner) is participation in imperialism. You are the one deviating from lenin's theory by turning it into a set of policies a nation can choose or reject. Youve turned critical support agaisnt imperialism into uncritical support against criticism.

    As I said before: leaving aside the realities of siege socialism is bad analysis. Ask yourself this question: is China in a better position in 2026 to start a struggle against global imperialism than it was in 1980? Throwing oneself naked at the guns of capitalism may seem like a very honourable thing to do, but the fact is that China survives and western capitalism patently doesn't want it to.

    Your final bit on the USSR operating under the laws of value and commodity circulation in international exchange is simply wrong, btw, there is extended analysis of this in Albert Szymanski's "Is the Red Flag Flying", and the numbers are given proving that the USSR didn't engage in the way whatever Guyanan official declared in 1960. The USSR actually mostly invested in foreign countries through direct industrialization schemes, where they would loan the necessary materials or industrial goods or even currency to put the industry there in the first place, and then they'd receive the payment back in kind in the industrially produced goods. This can be hardly described as "the Soviets wouldn't give help developing their industry". The USSR also put itself in the short end of the stick of unequal exchange by being a net exporter of raw materials and energy resources to the eastern block, and a net importer of industrially produced goods, which made possible the industrialization of the rest of countries of the Eastern Block, yes, also during and after Khruschyov.

  • Had a 1v9 argument about China and Cuba being socialist at my org

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  • Yup, I was referencing that. Thanks for the link, every western communist should read this

  • Had a 1v9 argument about China and Cuba being socialist at my org

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  • To a certain extent this is already the case. Tiktok has opened many peoples' eyes to the realities of life in modern China, and people are exposed to a lot more coming from China than they were just 5 years ago.

  • Had a 1v9 argument about China and Cuba being socialist at my org

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  • Concern trolling about Ukraine among "leftists" falls apart pretty quickly when you ask Eur*peans what they think of the 9 million in demographic losses in the country (or about 20% of the former population) between 1990 and 2020 due to European colonization of their economy. Literally worse than the 1930s famine.

  • Had a 1v9 argument about China and Cuba being socialist at my org

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  • I was telling them: can you imagine living in a country where they're not at risk of fascists? Like, they simply aren't 5 years away from fascism in China, they don't have fascist political parties, they don't have fascist political commentators, they don't have fascists owning their social media... I literally can't comprehend how one can look at that, look back at Europe, and immediately embrace China as Socialist. Like, duh, China isn't perfect, the country fucking exists in a world dominated by NATO capitalism, but hell are they doing fucking great!

  • Had a 1v9 argument about China and Cuba being socialist at my org

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  • They don't even self-describe as Trots (though Trots also engage in this), it's just European marxism doesn't allow acceptance of any socialist movement that doesn't fail

  • This does not feel vegan

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  • It's not a struggle session if it doesn't come from the Strugglenheim region of Germany

  • NightHawkInLight wants to give you explosive gas! "There's More to Electrolysis Than I Thought."

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  • Not so much a fuel source as an energy vector. You don't extract energy from water, you just use external energy to electrolyze it, obtain H2 gas and return it to water upon combustion.

  • Dennis Prager, famous for eating the most hamburgers ever, is very ill

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  • "Socialism is based"

    -Denim Prayer

  • Feds are trying to prosecute Hasan Piker and CodePink's Madea Benjamin for delivering aid to Cuba

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