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  • BalabakMan@lemmygrad.mltoCommunism@lemmygrad.ml•Critique of Xi Jinping's "How to deepen reform comprehensively"
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    3 years ago

    China isn’t even close to phasing out markets and private property, their priorities are very much still centred on growing the economy and becoming a prosperous modern country. Leveraging markets and private capital has always been (since Deng anyway) part of their strategy on achieving this. And considering China’s track record over the past few decades, I’m inclined to believe that their strategy is sound.

    Unfortunately, the belief that markets=capitalism is very common. The truth is markets are actually good for most of the reasons parroted by capitalists. This isn’t theory anymore, it’s been demonstrated over and over again throughout the past few centuries now. China’s rise being a recent and very relevant example. However, China having markets and using them to accelerate economic growth does not make China capitalist.

    There’s this habit in leftist spaces to hyper-focus on who owns the means of production. To judge a state’s progress towards socialism only through the pace at which the ownership of the means of productions are transferred to the workers. To dismiss the USSR, China, Vietnam etc… as invalid communist projects because they didn’t manage to reach the step beyond “state capitalism”, because their attempts at building socialism are/were stained by the use of markets. I think this habit, this tendency, is bad and stupid.

    China has not yet reached true socialism or communism, but it is still a communist country. It’s a communist country because the ruling authority in China is a communist organization that is representative of the people. The CPC is a dictatorship of the proletariat, or specifically in China’s case, a dictatorship of the people. Under a DotP, China’s progress and development can only lead to real socialism and eventually real communism. They will make mistakes, take wrong turns and detours, but as long as political power remains in the hands of the people socialism is inevitable. And that’s the part that bugs me the most about the analysis you posted. It seems like OP believes that the CPC is being false with their communist rhetoric, but to believe that means ignoring or dismissing all of the work and effort that the CPC is doing to actively resist capitalist influences and safeguard China’s DotP. And I’m not okay with that.

    TLDR; China is communist. Using markets doesn’t make China Capitalist. If the CPC wants to go capitalist all they have to do is stop resisting capitalist influences and stop supressing their bourgeoisie.

    Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/tq0bop/your_thoughts_on_this/i2eqotr/