• NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Yup China has the fastest growing billionaire and millionaire class. It’s no more socialist than America but we need a boogy man, as long as that antagonist isn’t capitalism the wheels towards the cliff will keep turning.

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        6 months ago

        Absolutely not. If you look hard at the colonialist shitfuckery the US perpetrated during the (so-called) “Cold War”, “socialism” was only the enemy as far as the propaganda and pretexts were concerned - in reality, the insurgencies the US tried to repress and the governments the US undermined were all nationalist in nature.

        The US isn’t threatened by socialism because the US defeated any internal socialist threat with Roosevelt’s New Deal - whether they will do that again is anyone’s guess.

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      6 months ago

      It’s an authoritarian country where labour unions are illegal and the ruling party is dominated by wealthy billionaires. They spew out xenophobic propaganda that claims that foreigners want to repeat the humiliations of the past (over a century ago) and therefore they need strongmen to protect the people.

      We probably should just call them fascists, but since they say they’re socialists we believe them. Fascists would never claim to be socialists, they’re known to be super honest about that kind of thing.

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        6 months ago

        Labor unions are not illegal. They send a packet of meats to my girlfriend every year. The problem is that this is that only thing they are allowed to do

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        6 months ago

        Labour unions are illegal? I saw from non-chinese ppl that live there they have strikes all time. Can you provide a sauce?