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  • 996 is illegal and largely found in big tech companies in Beijing and Shanghai. The average work week in China is 46 hours. You are confusing taxation for socialism. When I say public ownership is principal, I am very much speaking of the fact that the backbone of China’s economy is the public sector of the economy. The largest entities are nearly all State Owned Enterprises, and critical industries are also overwhelmingly state owned.

    Secondly, wages are getting higher and higher. Purchasing power in 2022 was 25 times higher than 1978, and this growth is steady.

    Thirdly, the social product of society is not directed towards private profits, but for the needs of society and future growth. China has more high speed rail than anyone on the planet, is combatting desertification, electrifying faster than anyone, eradicated extreme poverty faster than anyone, has practically no homeless people, plans cities ahead of using them so that they have smart civil planning, and more. China invests in the future, because it isn’t dominated by the profit motive.

    I implore you to actually look at China’s real existence today, compared with 10 years ago, 20, 50, and 100. No other country has managed to come so far in such a short time, and it’s thanks precisely to socialism.





  • That’s not what I mean by “principal.” The principal aspect of something is that which is rising, dominant, and determines the character of a system. In China, the commanding heights of industry are overwhelmingly publicly owned. Private ownership is largely of the petty type, or in secondary/high competition categories, with more state oversight the larger and more important the industry is.

    As these firms grow, they are gradually folded into the public sector. Capital exists in a birdcage that the CPC can gradually tighten as they please, thanks to the political power they have, and they allow capital to serve the purpose of building up the productive forces to service the future economy that is more publicly planned.





  • Insofar as the proletariat is invested in the system, you must use that system.

    This is just bowing to sponteneity. The party’s role is to raise the consciousness of the proletariat to their level, not to remain where the working classes are at. That’s the purpose of political parties, to organize and create proletarian intellectuals as a counter to bourgeois intellectuals. Otherwise the proletariat stays at the level of trade union consciousness if it has no means to see the political struggle as a whole.

    Stop dragging Lenin through the mud to justify supporting imperialists. Lenin’s point was never to just follow along with whatever is popular among the proletariat without analyzing if it’s achievable or not, it was to raise them to correct praxis.

    Want to uphold Lenin? Start with an analysis of class, what’s the class makeup of the US Empire? Largely labor aristocrats, whose spoils have been eroding for decades. The petite bourgeoisie is solidly in the MAGA camp, and big tech capitalists have merged with the big finance capitalists as imperialism is decaying. The people are largely disillusioned in the electoral process. Settler-colonialism is still a primary contradiction internally.

    What is to be done? Build up a party like PSL, that upholds indigenous rights and is trying to unite the proletariat at the front lines of every major struggle, both domestic and anti-imperialist.


  • You are misinterpreting Lenin’s work enormously. What Lenin is describing is fronting working class parties in bourgeois elections, like what PSL is doing, not working within bourgeois parties in bourgeois elections. This is abundantly clear if you read Lenin, Lenin’s central thesis is that the working classes need their own, united party, and that said party needs to combine legal and illegal work to grow. The DNC is not a communist, socialist, or even vaguely anti-imperialist organization, it’s an imperialist party representing capital alone.


  • You’re redirecting people to a pressure valve, rather than to disabling the genocide machine. You’re talking down on those actually organizing to end the genocide and trying to justify your own complicity in perpetuating it. The actual strategy is to build up organizations like PSL, which are hampered by people having any faith whatsoever in the DNC as a means to prevent harm (which they do not do anyways).


  • The problem is that those organizations are being built as we speak, and so should redirect people to those organizations. That’s realistic praxis. By pretending that these organizations will magically appear one day without needing to life a finger, you’re absolving yourself of the responsibility to do so and are calling “realistic praxis” upholding a genocidal system.