China's just a demsoc nation with ML characteristics. They aren't some ultra pure leftist haven or anything. They're pretty liberal, but at least they still have the mechanisms in place to massively mobilize their labor power to achieve public good. Criticisms that venture beyond that framing of them are usually in bad faith or poorly researched/sinophobic.
It's wild to me that support of China is contentious in western leftist circles. It's one of the only countries that is actively executing members of their domestic bourgeoisie. They have extensive social programs and pretty high union membership. They also attach union labor stipulations to foreign investments and provide no interest loans like crazy both domestically and abroad.
They're the poster child of what western radlibs preach, but for some reason it's the radlibs that hate them most.
China's just a demsoc nation with ML characteristics. They aren't some ultra pure leftist haven or anything. They're pretty liberal, but at least they still have the mechanisms in place to massively mobilize their labor power to achieve public good. Criticisms that venture beyond that framing of them are usually in bad faith or poorly researched/sinophobic.
This is fair, and I'll add one thing: by being officially communist, it's at least possible for a committed communist to rise to power.
It's wild to me that support of China is contentious in western leftist circles. It's one of the only countries that is actively executing members of their domestic bourgeoisie. They have extensive social programs and pretty high union membership. They also attach union labor stipulations to foreign investments and provide no interest loans like crazy both domestically and abroad.
They're the poster child of what western radlibs preach, but for some reason it's the radlibs that hate them most.
A lot of radlibs are still sorting through all the anti-China propaganda.
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