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| 17 hours ago | mod | Removed Comment Oh fuck off. Look up pictures of Chinese wet markets in this region, they trap wild animals for hundreds of miles and stack them in cages shitting on each other.
That's the origin of SARs in 2003. It was the origin in 2019, and will be the origin of the next virus in 10-15 years.
There is no evidence in the SARSCov2 genome of any recombinant manipulation. by SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca reason: Rule 2 |
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| 28 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Wtf are you talking about. The president is Putin's bitch, and we all know it, this is old news. What is your deal? Are you a maga chode in disguise? A tankie? by bedwyr@piefed.ca reason: Rule 1 |
| 28 days ago | mod | Removed Comment Right, acknowledging the president being Putin's bitch is maga, that make sense. Are you that fucking stupid? by bedwyr@piefed.ca reason: Rule 1 |
| 28 days ago | mod | Removed Comment The president is Putin's bitch. by bedwyr@piefed.ca reason: Rule 1 |
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| 28 days ago | mod | Removed Comment China is also committing genocide, apon the uyghurs, a lot of you seem to gloss over that for some fuckin reason.
Also China kind of did actually also invent the first spy states, eunuchs secret police then the CCPs totalitarian camera state.
China is also capable of racism, just look at the ethnic tention between Korea and Japan, not to mention the other Asian states.
China is also guilty of imperialism using shitty loans made impossibly hard to pay off with the stipulation that they sieze the inferstructure if they can't pay it off using the belt and road initiative to build inferstructure across Africa, the middle East, and other less developed places in Asia.
You are stupid, get off tictac and go learn actual history. by Smaile@lemmy.ca reason: Rule 1, 2 |
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| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment Basic salty tankie comment from the bootlicker instance. Just a bunch of sad submissives waiting for more powerful men to tell them what to think and do.
You can definitely tell the ml crowd are getting angrier as Russia's loss in this stupid war becomes more and more apparent. by Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world reason: Rule 1, 2 |
| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment
>You really know so little about China but talk with such arrogance. Have you tried listening and learning rather than being a smug shitheel?
Oh, I've got an angry one on the line here! Calm down son, they are only words, they cannot hurt you! You love your government bla bla bla, I get it, boot heals are delicious!
>You seem like a white saviour type
Who am I trying to save here?
>Also talking about Marxism being debunked while being a Georgist is peak comedy.
I am not a Georgist any more than I am a Marxist. Both are outdated and flawed economic ideologies from another era. We can take the good from them and progress is my point. Marx is a great starting point to anyone's economic education, if Marx is also your endpoint this is worrying, you have a very narrow understanding of economics, especially in the modern era.
>China is socialist and has been since October 1st 1949.
Do you believe China's economic set up is the same as it was in 1949? You must just be uneducated, this makes more sense. Let me teach you why China is not socialist.
Private ownership and capital accumulation
Although the state owns the land and key strategic sectors, a vast majority of the economy is driven by privately-owned corporations and foreign investments. The country is home to hundreds of billionaires, and market-driven wealth accumulation contradicts the socialist goal of eliminating the capitalist class.
Labour rights and exploitation
In orthodox Marxist theory, a socialist state is defined by the empowerment of the working class and collective control over the means of production. In reality, independent labor unions are illegal, and workers frequently face severe labor conditions (such as the intense "996" work schedule). The system relies on the exploitation of surplus labor value to remain a dominant player in the global capitalist market
High economic inequality
Despite official goals of achieving "common prosperity," market reforms have resulted in massive inequalities between the booming coastal urban centers and the poorer rural provinces. This wealth gap, which extends to the Gini coefficient, is more aligned with advanced capitalist economies than an egalitarian socialist society.
Integration into global capitalism
China’s explosive growth is heavily tied to its integration into the global capitalist market, export-driven manufacturing, and participation in organizations like the World Trade Organization. The state leverages its cheap labor to attract multinational corporations, prioritizing global market success over traditional socialist internationalism.
Lack of democratic workers control
Under traditional socialist ideology, the economy and society are meant to be managed democratically by the working class. In China, decision-making is heavily centralized under a single-party government. There is no bottom-up workers' control, free speech, or independent political assembly, which are foundational principles of true socialist governance.
I hope you now understand why China is not a socialist country by any stretch of the imagination. To quote Deng Xiaoping when asked about this, "It doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice". Even Deng didn't believe China was socialist, why do you?
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| 1 month ago | mod | Removed Comment
>The Soviets achieved this via pro-social policies and central planning, on their own labor. The soviets were anti imperialist and de-colonial
You are a typical basic tankie who engages in cognitive dissonance to protect an economic model that did not work when first postulated centuries ago and certainly does not fit with the modern global economy. You and your type are the only ones who believe the Soviets were "anti imperialist". Try telling that to the people of Easy Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary when they had soviet tanks set against their populations. Tell that to the people of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine and all of the Caucasus and central Asian states. Is it only colonialism and imperialism when it is against black people.
>As for the disollution of the USSR, it's complicated. In any case, it was the adoption of capitalism and the ensuing plunder by the imperialist west that created the economic devastation that caused the skyrocketing prostitution. Socialism did not cause it, capitalism did.
You are correct, it is complicated. The adoption of a more capitalist society was the result of the collapse of the economy of the Soviet Union and not the other way around. Economies don't right themselves overnight and Russia had a terrible 90s as a result of the collapse of their terrible economy, not the opening of their markets. Socialism and it's collapse is what caused the hardships of the 90s, trying to blame that on the introduction of capitalism is another example of confusing correlation with causation. In terms of plunder by the imperial west, Russia was plundered by their own. The oligarch class became that way because the Russian government allowed them to buy up all of the shares in Russian oil and gas that were distributed to the people.
>As for the PRC, no, it is not "hybrid state capitalism." By "most economists," you mean purely western liberal and neoliberal economists. Socialism is a mode of production and distribution where public ownership is the principal aspect of the economy,
Yea buddy, everything you don't agree with is liberal or neoliberal. The truth is that the Chinese economy is driven by privately owned corporations and foreign investment. China is home to hundreds of billionaires, does market driven wealth accumulation not contradict the socialist goal of eliminating the capitalist class?
What about the exploitation of the poor working classes in China? Workers face severe labour conditions such as the 996 system, independent labour unions are illegal. The system relies on the exploitation of surplus labor value to remain a dominant player in the global capitalist market.
China also contains high economic inequality. Under traditional socialist ideology, the economy and society are meant to be managed democratically by the working class. In China, decision-making is heavily centralized under a single-party government. There is no bottom-up workers' control, free speech, or independent political assembly, which are foundational principles of true socialist governance.
>As for Marx, his predictions *are* coming to pass, and he has not been "debunked
If we were talking 100 years ago you would have a point but the revolution has been an utter disappointment. If Marx's theories are as good as you believe we should all be living in a communist wonderland by now!
>swelling the welfare states in the imperialist west
I believe this is a good thing, wealth redistribution in action. Thought you'd be a fan.
>You are erasing imperialism from the equation because it immediately causes your argument to fall apart
You are the one erasing Russia's imperialism during the USSR because it causes your argument to fall apart. I am certainly not erasing imperialism from the equation, this is the reason for the grand squares and places around Europe, Russia included. They are certainly a big part of why we have had western hegemony for so long. I come from a country that has no history of colonising another country, in fact my country was colonised for 100s of years. I know what imperial colonialism looks like and that's what imperial Russia and the USSR did.
>Marx correctly predicted, and billions now live in socialism.
When you have to lie like this you know you have lost the argument. I have already explained how China is not socialist. China is closer to USA economic policies than Marx!
>The Russo-Ukrainian war is not imperialist in nature
As I said before, I know imperialism when I see it. Remember nazi Germany saving all of the Germanic peoples of the Sudetenland? Same imperial play, Russia doesn't care about the people of the Donbass one bit. Funny the war started just after Ukraine discovered oil and gas in 2013 and rare earth's and lithium in the early 2010s. Russia always be stealing.....
>As for China and Russia, they have great relations and mutually benefit.
Still not allies. You are a fool to believe Xi cares for any nation other than China.
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