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      Emacting ML

      One doesn’t practice socialism by calling their bourgies “the people’s billionares” or by making the goverment do stuff. China has a private market, wage labour is dominant and their monopolies actively export capital.

      They’re a social democracy larping as communists

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        You should try reading marx and understanding what ‘socialist devolopment’ is before running your mouth and saying a bunch of shit you have 0 clue about.

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          @ghost_of_faso2 @moffintosh@lemmygrad.ml Did you or he convinietly forget about the USSR? You know, the second economic world power at the time which was able to industrialize and develop via central economic planning instead of devolving in a redwashed capitalist social-democracy?

          And before you spell N.E.P., the current chinese revisionism and the NEP aren’t even remotely comparable. For starters, the NEP lasted only 5 years, was limited to agriculture and had the precise aim of pacifiying the pesant class after a revolutionary war. China too had it’s initial NEP period (the New Democracy), which was later supplanted by central economic planning, which built the industrial foundations of the country, and which would even result in a faster, more equal, economic growth for china had they kept them.

          In short, socialist development isn’t capitalism but with the red state doing things, and you don’t need capitalism to develop a nation

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            Did you or he convinietly forget about the USSR?

            1. the USSR is dead
            2. this discussion is about China
            3. china is not revisionist
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              @ghost_of_faso2

              the USSR is dead

              And not because of socialist planning, rather due to revisionism and professionalization of the party. China wasn’t really helping either since it considered the USSR a greather threat to itself and socialism than the USA

              this discussion is about China.

              It’s about their socioeconomic policy, and their switch away from socialist planning to market economy under the pretext that the latter is a necessary step of development. The USSR debunks this.

              China is not revisionist

              China has a market economy with wage labour and private ownership of the means of production which contributes to 70% of it’s GDP. They also allowed bourgeois into the party since 2002, not to mention their monopolies export capital abroad. Pretty revisionist, surely more than whatever Khrushchev did.

              https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1016/j.chieco.2020.101431

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          As far as I can tell, the source is dumb anarchists vs. Caleb Maupin c. 2021. I never heard it prior to that.

          Specifically, it seems to originate in a video he made called “Socialist Billionaires? YES! (Let me explain…)” It was a fairly run-of-the-mill explanation, with a click-baity title, of why China has a market sector. Of course, rather than engage in any one of the many legitimate criticisms you could make of Caleb Maupin, the terminally online anarchist crowed focused on the title alone, and were spamming “the people’s billionaires” all over the place for months afterward. It’s the same mindset that finds “borger king” funny, and it probably won the guy more followers than he lost.

          The phrase has been living on “left” social media ever since.