This is how I know you're not actually a Marxist. Class interests will always be more important than any professed adherence to an ideology. The Chinese bourgeoisie is in the government, party leadership and the NPC. It's not in their interests to move towards a socialist society (which is why they don't). Also a few articles that have been posted here multiple times before have shown how utterly watered down and revisionist official Marxism is in China.
No, China is not in any stage of socialism. They're in this other thing called capitalism.
>Deng was absolutely right that China needed to develop it's productive forces before moving to socialism It's very obvious that "primary stage of socialism" is nothing but a fancy word for capitalism.
Under the control of the Chinese bourgeoisie.
Dengoids always say this without saying how or giving a single example.
And Xi has been cracking down on this for years now. He's been curbing the power of the billionaires and rooting out corruption. It wasn't in the interests of NEPmen to move to socialism either, yet the USSR eventually did. There are multiple stages that China has to go through to reach advanced socialism and eventually communism. The first one retains many functions of capitalism, yes, but solely because they needed to allow the productive forces to grow and also to stay competitive in a Western-dominated capitalist world. Now that China has developed it's productive forces exponentially, it can now focus on progressing towards the more advanced stage of socialism. This is why Xi is stressing the importance of science and technology, especially in the fields of robotics and AI which are the innovations which will inevitably bring about advanced socialism. For now much of it is, yes. The state however has the final say in the matter. Did the Soviet state not eventually commandeer the property owned by the NEPmen? The anti-corruption campaign, the Belt and Road initiative, the automation mandates, the Chinese Dream concept, the curbing of billionaire influence in the party, the massive rise of the standard of living to name a few. I have no idea how China opposers think that a socialist revolution can and will occur in the first world but scoff at the idea that China, an already Marxist-Leninist state, will just stagnate forever and never change. China is really our only hope.
Ryder Hughes
are we even talking about the same country here
Luke Johnson
Most of these are literally just developmentalist policies that could be enforced in any Western country. The last two could just as well occur in any "welfare state" that has some social-democratic elements in the government. Who thinks this? I mean no one says it will stagnate. China, much like India, could become socialist if a workers' uprising were to overthrow the state and seize the means of production. Capitalism is screwing the Chinese workers over pretty badly so there's definitely some revolutionary potential.
Christian Morales
Reminder state ownership and culling of bourgeois class is NOT socialism, if it was, Singapore would be a dotp
