What class do you believe is in control of the state in China? Surveillance is used to cement proletarian control and root out infiltration and capitalist organizing. It’s why China executes many billionaires, and is one of the only countries in the world where the number of billionaires is decreasing year over year despite increasing per capita wealth year over year. Sarcasm isn’t a point.

Nobody said the Chinese state doesn’t use surveillance, the primary difference is that China is socialist, and the working classes control the state. Nationalization in a capitalist context is under a bourgeois state, nationalization in a socialist context is under a proletarian state. These aren’t vauge “sides,” but concrete class distinctions.

The news is generally rich people paying workers to frame current events in bourgeois friendly manners. It’s up to us to read through the lines.

Are you suggesting that learning about current events is only something the rich should do?

Yogthos isn’t telling poor people to blame each other, but that the working classes need to collectively fight the bourgeoisie.

Trade is not imperialism. BRICS is not imperialist.

In a socialist society, sure, absolutely. In a capitalist one, no. Nationalization does not exist outside the context of the broader state and economy. You can see an example of how socialist countries handle AI very differently with China, where it is more of a utility for public gain than private profits.

What are you referring to?

Would be, I agree!

All EU member states are capitalist and depend on imperialism and neocolonialism. In that sense, they are all right wing, left wing countries would be like China and Cuba.

As for imperialism, the first part of the definition is vague enough that it applies to countries like Burkina Faso kicking France out of Africa, while the second would make the Statesian North annexing the confederacy “imperialism.” Wikipedia affirmatively takes the definition of imperialism that makes it as vague as possible, reducing it to a policy preference rather than a materialist system with definite causes and necessary conclusions.

Imperialism in the modern era, as course of fact, is a stage in capitalist development. When markets are fully saturated domestically, capital expands outward. Once industrial and bank capital grow, they merge and dominate the entire economy, resulting in the dominance of finance capital in the economy and an export of capital, rather than commodities. This is how the west plunders the world in the modern era, and what Russia cannot do.

Social democrats seek to reform capitalism, which is incompatible with socialism.

The US is a bourgeois state, this is not the working classes siezing it but the capitalists collectively.

Communists tend to be critical of social democrats, considering the question of advancing to socialism or reforming capitalism is an irreconcilable schism. It’s absolutely organic.

It’s cool! Also a shame that the PRK was dissolved, much tragedy has happened across the peninsula because the US dissolved it.

The university of Washington did not hallucinate the data, they have imperfect data and admitted it to be so. The fact that the data is imperfect does not mean that the opposite of what has been observed by outside parties has been happening, ie continued famine and stagnating development, vs the reality of increased food security and industrialization across the board. It also does not mean the findings themselves are wrong. Based on our best estimations based on available data, there is nothing pointing to what you are claiming.

Meanwhile, you’re sharing no data. You just rely on vibes, and when your vibes run counter to outside estimation based on what we do know, you say it’s “invalid.” Where’s your data supporting your initial claims?

This was the flag of the People’s Republic of Korea, before Korea was split and the people’s councils declared illegal in the south.

I’ve presented hard data, go back through my comments. You seem to be ignoring everything inconvenient to your chauvanist claims. The DPRK allows its citizens to go to countries that allow travelers from the DPRK, this isn’t a situation the DPRK set itself up for but it’s the one they have to deal with. I do vet my sources, you have exactly none.

Basically, lol

However, am I supposed to just close my eyes and plug my ears when I can see actual evidence of what I just wrote with my own two eyeballs and that has sources from many countries around the world some of them that also hate the USA?

You never provided any of this, lol. We cannot see what you’re talking about.

Russia tends to be critically supported by the left, while being admired by the far-right for having hard power. The far-right like Russia for being a capitalist power that cracks down on the LGBTQ community, while the left critically supports it in undermining imperialism and neocolonialism.