China is democratic, though. In addition to QinShiHuangsSchlong’s comment, I recommend Roland Boer’s Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance. Socialist democracy has been imperfect, but has gone through a number of changes and adaptations over the years as we’ve learned more from testing theory to practice. Boer goes over the history behind socialist democracy in this textbook.

Not by itself, agrarian slavery is different from industrial wage labor under private owners.

Just to be clear, by idealism we mean the conception that thought is prior to matter, ie supernatural explanations for material phenomena. We do not mean having ideals. An example of idealism is ascribing a morality to the state to begin with. There is no such thing as a supernatural “good or evil,” and that’s why Marxists reject such frames of argument.

Idealism?

The radioactive debatebro is my past reddit self… Trying to recover from that, haha.

What a dogmatic, overly reductive assessment.

Production is not capitalism.

More than anything, the drop in superprofits from imperialism is heightening the contradictions in Statesian class society. Hopefully a revolution can happen.

The empire must fall for billions to be free.

The US Empire is thankfully in its death throes.

“Power” is not a supernatural corrupting force. Evil does not exist, there is no such thing as a supernatural force that guides the actions of people. What you are confusing is the profit motive within capitalism incentivizing rule bending and corruption, as well as the continuation of class struggle into socialism requiring constant vigilance against capitalist restoration.

As for the majority saying life is better post-socialism, this is wrong. The majority of people that lived in the Soviet Union want it back. Additionally, over 90% of Chinese citizens support their system. In reality, socialism delivers far better democratic results, because the working classes are in control:

We will always need to transition between capitalism and communism with socialism. You cannot collectivize all production and distribution overnight, you cannot wither the state overnight, you cannot eliminate classes overnight, and you cannot take people from capitalism to communism mentally overnight. This is an impossibility.

I don’t understand what you mean by saying “human mentality isn’t far evolved enough.” Human mentality is shaped by how we live, produce, and distribute, in other words by our material conditions. We get to communism through socialism, which involves changing our conditions and thus this changed our mentality. As for China, it’s still in the developing stages of socialism, it has not reached communism yet.

That’s just capitalism.

This is largely someone trying to explain away something and push a narrative. Again, read Xinjiang: A Resource and Report Compilation.

What matters is the evidence. The UN is toothless and dominated by western interests, and the majority of muslim nations have come out in favor of China’s evidence over the UN.

You asked an AI without even reading China’s response to the allegations? You just had an AI summarize the allegations alone, without reading China’s counter-evidence. I asked you to read the OHCHR report so you could understand the allegations, not as definitive evidence, which China’s response thoroughly debunks a large majority of it or contextualizes.

Plus, I’m not the one you were responding to here, I linked you Xinjiang: A Resource and Report Compilation.

I already gave my sources on Xinjiang, so I won’t retread old ground.

The nordic countries thay have high scores on the IAHD index are a part of western imperialism. They subsidize their safety nets by plundering the surplus value of the south, and rely on institutions like the IMF and NATO to protect them and facilitate their plunder. China is not imperialist.

That’s because China is the subject of the post.

No I understand. Sometimes they do use irony, but these certainly aren’t leftists of any sort, they do support the west and western imperialism.

Hexbear tends to be confrontational towards liberalism, but this was labled as “trolling” as an excuse for instances like Lemmy.world to defederate.