As a long time hexbear user, you're causing no issues. Our resident anarchist (as in one of the more active ones) just got us to defederate from blahaj because their 196 comm has a "Fuck Tankies" banner and they hopped in and dragged the mod there about it until the mod threw a temper tantrum and removed their comments.
What you said is pretty tame compared to usual posting there lol
Isn't this kinda an empty gesture seeing as how the islands were basically uninhabited and China is recognizing Spanish imperial claims on the islands?
Still cool, but it's not really a big thing. Seems more like China just jabbing the US about Taiwan which is still funny.
Totally understand, there is a tendency with the Western left to idolize the CPC, which kinda makes sense. There isn't really an alternative except maybe Cuba, Vietnam, and DPRK. Those nations are also not in a position to really influence the positions of global capital.
There's also the fact that Marxists who don't live in China don't have to interface or deal with the domestic issues that come up there. All they have to interact with is the foreign policy of the CPC, which is significantly better than any other country (at least any country with a similar GDP, Cuba and even DPRK both do fantastic work with aid programs given their size).
I'll always be critically supportive of Chinese governance with the knowledge that many of their decisions arise from the conditions of China within the global market system and the reliance of China on access to that system. We can hypothesize about how things would be different if the Sino-Soviet split didn't happen and the entire East was unified under one socialist market that drarfed that of the west, but that's not the reality.
The reality is that China until recently had a relatively small domestic market for light industrial goods and developed their economy through export of labor and import of MOP. The current factor that we need to pay attention to is how the CPC transitions that model as China's internal markets develop to the point where they don't need to rely on export and can entirely function as a closed loop.
At that point, the need for "reform and opening up" will be basically gone except maybe for dealing with third world nations still shackled to the Dollar, but as the B&R continues to be built, those nations will be able to more easily divest from the dollar market and subsist on Chinese trade routes that honor their local currencies.
So yes, I agree that there's issues and that if things stagnate where they are then China and the CPC run the risk of backsliding into revisionism and a new form of capitalism, but as of now the pieces are in play that could absolutely be used to cast off that system. All we need to watch out for is how these programs and policies actually play out.
*maybe
Saying this as someone who constantly sees the local anarchist groups and CPUSA/ML groups working together at rallies and picketlines.
If your anarchism starts and stops at your screen you're just a liberal. Same for Marxist Leninism.
Reform and opening up is always one of those things I didn't like, but understood. So far it's worked to massively increase China's control over global production and is in line with how Lenin saw the NEP (If they want to sell us the rope, let them). So far the downsides include over exploitation of workers in any of these zones and also exploitation of specifically migrant workers near these zones to generate profit for a new capitalist class.
If this new capitalist class can be controlled and kept from creating a new power structure, it's a useful tool for dealing with imperialists, but it needs to always be subject to complete liquidation. Which is how China seems to approach this class.
The leveraging of foreign capital to develop domestic production for domestic consumption is also a plus. A trade surplus allows China to have some financial levers of power and keeping foreign capitalists from private ownership of the land their factories sit on also creates a positive power dynamic.
The development of China's domestic consumption has also made it irresistible to western capitalists who will continually prostrate themselves at the CPC's feet for access to it no matter what they say in the west.
There is a Chinese anime about young Karl Marx if that counts
I thought it was
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where
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because
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20,000 of us incoming (more like 1000 very active and another 1000 light users/lurkers)
The Rust community pitching going to Kbin cracked me up.