Developed Western nations have long-term economic, technological and military advantages over China and the Communist Party has to realize that some people will use the West's strong points to criticize socialism's failings, President Xi Jinping said.
Since assuming power in China more than six years ago, Xi has ramped up efforts to ensure total party loyalty and discipline, including a sweeping crackdown on corruption, warning the party's very survival is at stake.
This year, which is marked by a series of sensitive anniversaries including three decades since the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square, has seen a further increase in calls for party loyalty.
On Monday, leading party theoretical journal Qiushi, which means "Seeking Truth", published lengthy excerpts for the first time from a speech Xi gave in early 2013 shortly after becoming party boss, warning of the dangers the party faces.
Citing Marx and Engels, Xi said socialism would inevitably vanquish capitalism, but that it would be a long historical process. China practises what it calls socialism with Chinese characteristics.
China must "fully appraise the objective reality of the long-term advantage Western developed countries have in the economic, scientific, and military fields, and conscientiously prepare for all aspects of long-term cooperation and struggle between the two social systems", Xi said.
The party also needed to "face the reality that some people compare the good qualities of Western developed nations with the insufficiencies of our country's socialist development and offer criticism of it", he added.
While the party has committed "big mistakes" like the Cultural Revolution, when children turned on parents and students on teachers after Mao Zedong declared class war, the party's history is "generally speaking glorious", Xi said.
Those who criticize the revolution - which brought the Communist Party to power in 1949 - are simply trying to incite the overthrow of the party, he added.
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But China needs to stick to its landmark economic reforms begun in 1978, without which the party could have fallen, Xi said.
The party "may even have faced a serious crisis, like the death of the party and the death of the country encountered by the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries".
But China had proved the naysayers wrong, Xi added.
"Both history and reality tell us that only socialism can save China. Only socialism with Chinese characteristics can develop China. This is the conclusion of history and the choice of the people."
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Levi Johnson
that'll be in my lifetime, so let's see.
Landon Martin
They're not going to leave this century of NEP, the party is too spooked about changing the relations of production because they're scared of a resurgent Maoism. This is all despite the fact that the productive forces are more than developed enough for Maoist transformation of production relations to result in a prosperous, classless society of industrial, state owned cooperatives.
he was just goofing, having a laff, communism actually came years before him
Levi Morgan
That is well known. Western nations thrived off the invasions and murders of other cultures and continents while western satellite states have their people and resources exploited for centuries to benefit the puppet officials and foreigners.
Ethan Scott
He's not wrong. Eventually China will surpass US GDP but the US and EU combined would still be much higher, and that's not even counting the rest of the US-aligned world.
Justin Wood
communism in the ussr died with stalin. RIP in peace
William White
I need to get in shape and exercise, eat healthier. I want to live long enough to see China activate full communism.
Wyatt Jones
Stop. He, and the rest of the CCP are pragmatists who don't give 2 shits about Marx or Communism. Xi's aims are nationalistic and essentially amount to consolidating and stabilising China. Nothing else. Stop deluding yourselves.
Jeremiah Allen
rip
Isaiah Baker
If you oppose america and actively work to abolish American hegemony and unipolarity you are working to establish global socialism whether you realize it or not. So at the end of the day it doesn't matter if Xi is a "true socialist/communist/etc.'
Is that why he opposes tariffs with the US and supports pacific free trade?
Thomas Ramirez
lol no, China will surpass the west in all of these categories by 2050, unless there is a second Chinese civil war, or a socialist revolution in America.
Jayden Myers
No you aren’t
Jayden Taylor
Delusional
China's growth is already slowing down. It won't overtake the USA.
They said the same thing about Japan, the same thing about the USSR. Newly industrialising nations grow fucking crazy. This isn't new.
China's already seeing growth average at around 6%. In 15 years it'll have stabilised at a healthy 3% GDP Growth per year.
William Wilson
You truly don't know anything about China. Everything on the left is behind Xi at the moment, so he at least does something right. Except Sucdems, but then again, sucdems aren't on the left.
Nathan Wilson
Xi Jingping, unlike his predecessors, fully endorses Mao without any reservations. (i.e. 70% right 30% wrong)
Gavin Brooks
It's okay my tank friend, soon you'll see HIS light.
The left is behind Xi because he’s consolidating state economic control and reestablishing the ideological nature of the party. Not because he intends to implement genuine socialism. He is aiming to encourage the growing middle class.
Samuel Hall
Ur retarded if u think.the USA will stay superpower forever. Muh end of history. The USA is already slowing down hence the retarded trade wars and Venezuela coup etc. They are clinging on to the last remnants of relevancy (economical pressure through international institutions, sanctions and bourgeois collaborators) they have bar all-out nuclear warfare.
Brody White
I think the US will be a superpower (or power maybe) and there will be superpowers (or powers) in the future.
Levi Jones
Dude, I’m not pulling some ‘end of history’ shit. The USA isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Their economy, despite economic inequality getting worse, is still growing comfortably. Their military presence is still high.
I don’t think you realise just how huge the US economy is. China’s economy still only comes to around 2/3’s of the US’ in generous estimates. The US’ army is so large it’s absurd.
Stop with this fantasy that the end of capitalism is just around the corner.
Jaxon Reed
What is that genuine socialism you speak of? And the first step to that is to see the working class being generally wealthy. You can't hope to achieve socialism of poverty - which is what every sensible thinker in the Chinese Communist Party stated as the Cultural revolution proved to be a failure.
Blake Powell
Yes, it's most likely is. Timeline of liberalism is French Revolution, defeat of France, age of Reaction, liberal revolutions that were literally just around the corner from Reaction. It will be the same case now, provided that this end won't coincide with global cataclysms that deteriorate productive forces of humanity across the board.
Jackson Cox
It’s growth rate is still three times America’s.
America’s is 2% and is in decline.
They probably will they just won’t remain the biggest superpower forever. The reason why they will remain a superpower is that what causes superpowers to lose their status as powers is either balkanization, loosing wars very badly, and overdepndce on colonialism. The US can’t Balkanize because while the US is multi-ethnic, different ethnicities are spread evenly around the country geographically, meaning two Americans from opposite ends of the country are very similar culturally. The US can loose wars (it often does) but it can’t loose wars so bad that it’s occupied by foreign nations. His is because the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans separate the US from the other great powers of the world, making an occupation of the American homeland by them impossible. Also while the US Empire is uses Imperialism to stay afloat, American power was never as dependent on it as the European Colonial Empires. Unlike Britain and France. American might comes from America being very large, rich in resources, having a large population. Imperialism is a result of America’s strength, not the cause of it. While America will be surpassed by China and probably India. America will remain a great power.
Gabriel Davis
Actual reforms of working rights and representation within the system as opposed to encouraging a middle class solely to encourage domestic consumption and per capita economic growth. The private sector isn’t losing power under Xi, it is cooperating with him.
Middle income growth is universal in every industrial society. It is a necessity of consumption. Him encouraging it doesn’t mean shit.
Holy shit, you don’t understand Hegel if you think it happens in the exact same pattern like a fucking videogame. They have been saying this since 1900. Capitalism will end, but not in our lifetime.
Yeah, and you’re deluded if you think China is gonna be able to maintain high enough annual GDP growth to reach US levels. Understand that when America’s economy grows 2% annually, that’s in relation to the current size.
The rest of your post looks like an analysis of how foreign policy works based on a paradox game.
Austin Price
They can and they certainly will, via the soft decentralization more likely, that is already happening and accelerating, which will only cause them to drift apart more, and there sure is a possibility of a Civil War, in a same way the actual Civil War had happened i.e. great antagonisms between the states, between two party lines.
Maybe, but probably not. The hegemon of the previous formation hits the floor the hardest, simply because most grotesque inadequacies of the old formation and regime will be most entrenched and empowered in it, so they very well can bury the society before they surrender.
Blake Murphy
Holy shit. Do you get your historical knowledge from videogames? In what fucking fantasy are you living in?
Samuel Gray
China is a Leninist Soviet Republic (with some other powerful elements, but also with actual free elections in base-level soviets, not rubberstamped single candidate like in the USSR) There is no private property or private sector like there is in the West, considering that the land cannot be privately owned, and most significant domestic businesses are some sophisticated hybrid models, all coordinated by the state, and some elements of co-op. Huawei started as a Co-op for example.
Not at all. It was a deformation caused by existence in the USSR. Middle class is effectively one leg in a grave in every western nation.
Your blind guess as good as anything.
Kevin Ortiz
What the fuck is this fucking post
Parker Adams
It will because it’s population if four times that of America’s. The Average Chinese just needs to be slightly more productive than a quarter of the average American for China to surpass the US.
The American government and Economy is drifting towards more centralization, not less.
All the states are economically dependent on each other.
Independents outnumber supporters of wither party.
If America as a second civil war it’ll be based off of ideology, not regionalism. And by ideology I mean not the fake liberal vs. conservative BS. But a socialist or fascist insurgency.
This only happens when the hegemony is occupied by a foreign power. (won’t happen)
William Gray
Spain became a shithole while not being occupied by anyone. Same, but softer fall of Britain. Same with all successful absolutist Empires from China to Austria.
Anthony Collins
I would unironically rather have US stay as powerful as it is than have China get anymore powerful. At least American citizens value a form of democracy and have the potential to be radicalized. The Chinese are hopeless.
Brody Anderson
Fucking lol at this fucking shit board. Fuck I wish all you yanks and other western cunts died. Xi wishes it too but he knows that we live in a hell dimension where you vile cunts have power.
Aaron Richardson
Hello where is burger?
Ian Long
Even american communists are cucked by the national exceptionalism meme
Jackson Garcia
America is the third biggest country in the world in terms of population and land mass. Spain is fucking tiny. Also Spain boarders France which is much more powerful than Spain. America boarders Canada and Mexico, not powerful nabbers.
Ian Lewis
Burger elections are complete shams though, only in America can the winner of the election be someone who looses the vote.
Chinese prols are have many active anti-CCP Communist movements occurring, they’re far from hopeless.
Kinda true, if America decided to Invade Canada with the intent of annexation on a BS Casus Belli, I’d support the troops because Manifest Destiny. t Burger
Ayden King
Communists who support America don’t have any power outside of Northern Syria. What kinda timeline do you live in?
Wyatt Evans
spain lost its empire as a direct result of napoleon occupying it for years
Colton Rivera
representative systems are sound, you are not voting for president in the US, you are voting for your representative who will select president for you. The US government is structured fairly well. The problem is the spectacle of the elections and the fact that candidates even run in the first place. A problem brought on by modern technology. What is actually happening under the hood is people are electing a local representative to go to washington and pick the president for them. I also think the US should revert the way senate elections work, it was most sensible.
Samuel Bailey
The parts that aren't "democratic" are structured fairly well. The US government is set up in a way that is very flexible for long-term stability, but it's not very well set up for actual democratic rule, it never was meant to be. Only on the surface level.
Andrew Bailey
China will soon challenge the dollar hegemony. War will broke out and burgers will likely lose.
Brayden White
Thats as as stupid as saying Trump was never depended on his fathers empire and inheritance to become a billionaire because America is simply rich in "opportunities". The US wouldn't exist as it does without Imperialism. The US couldnt have sustained itself without squeezing the blood out of the Middle East for the past half century.
So you are just a liberal American on CNN coolaid larping as a socialist
Ethan Bennett
Lol no one wins in that conflict, more importantly you're not going to dismantle the US military in one fell swoop
Ian Taylor
If America wasn’t Imperialist it would still be a great power because of it’s wealth of natural resources. This is in contrast to Britain, and France.
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Nathaniel Sanders
Not gonna last much longer.
Benjamin Lewis
No one won in ww1, but one power rose dominant. China has a billion and a half people. They have nukes. They have cutting edge technology. They are better at inovstion than anyone else on the planet. They ready.
Liam Richardson
All Han Chinese are the enemy. Slaughtering them will be much like breaking a yugoslavian homosexual's neck–One Hard Strike.
I'd like to take Lenin's skull and put it on my mantle, then give his bones to my dogs as much as I'd like to see all Han Chinese go extinct. However, we can't do that until after the revolution now can we comrade? Death to all traitors, yes?
Adam Cooper
Can you stop with the anti-han idpol? It’s rotting your brain.
Unironically…it's the only thing I wont think twice about. Han Chinese are our enemies and always will be.
Chase Watson
That's a policy of the Chinese government, not of the United States.
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Kevin Allen
The US sans imperialism would be Russia or Brazil tier. It wouldn't be "great" and it certainly wouldn't be the center of global finance.
Juan Mitchell
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Kevin Green
The US would still be stronger than either Russia or Brazil. It has better climate, more arable land, plenty of mineral resources, and higher population. A US without imperialism would probably be stronger than even the USSR at it's height since the americas are protected on both sides by ocean alleviating the need to maintain a massive military and the technological base is much higher.
