I was just scratching my head as I haven’t really seen a movie that generated this much hype; although, that may be, in part, because I haven’t touched grass in a while.

Fair point. I was just overthinking things.

Why the hell is there so much attention diverted to Barbie and Oppenheimer? Were they pushed this heavily as some counter-intelligence operation?

Every time I try to download the 2022 report, it fails every single time.

Is there a more updated version? The link was published 3 years ago.

By failed “international class war” do you mean like establishing an international and trying to do a global strike?

The rest of the first paragraph after the first sentence clarifies what I mean.

As for China being socialist, even they don’t claim they are.

The constitution of the Communist Party of China disagrees with that statement. http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/CHINA_209163/TopStories_209189/10195159.html

"The Communist Party of China is the vanguard of the Chinese working class, the Chinese people, and the Chinese nation. It is the leadership core for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and represents the developmental demands of China’s advanced productive forces, the orientation for China’s advanced culture, and the fundamental interests of the greatest possible majority of the Chinese people. The Party’s highest ideal and ultimate goal is the realization of communism.

The Communist Party of China uses Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Theory of Three Represents, the Scientific Outlook on Development, and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its guides to action."

As I’m currently reading ‘The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People‘ it appears to me that the CPC is treating the contradiction between the proletariat and bourgeoisie internally as contradictions among the people, as they already have state power.

Yes, I apologize for sounding confusing. What I meant was pretty much exactly what you said: the Chinese working classes are in possession of state power and are using it to resolve the internal contradictions in their society by taking them to their logical conclusions rather than arbitrarily lengthening them, as what has occurred in the US.

“Instead of exporting all low-value manufacturing to poorer nations so monopolies can make even more profit, the Chinese central government is automating that level of manufacturing and taking away the privileges that the domestic industrialists have enjoyed so far; thus, we can see that the primary internal contradictions are slowly being resolved, and that China is increasingly heading into the type of classless and harmonious society that was described by Marx and Engels.”

I am not convinced that international class war should be practiced, especially in the modern era. The reality is that countries where a socialist revolution succeeds will most likely be economically malnourished; so, instead of publicly waging class war on nearly every country in the world and letting yourself be isolated and slowly asphyxiated, it’s better to work with these nations to some extent and acquire the appropriate technological know-how and other means of production. Proletarian internationalism, in the form of making donations to people-centric governments or sending rescue teams after some natural disaster, is acceptable; however, military alliances and other burdening constraints based on ideology should be avoided at all costs.

As for China, I would say that it’s socialist because of instead sharpening the contradictions between capital and labour as what is occurring in countries, like the US, the Chinese state is resolving them to their logical conclusions. The most important aspect of this is preventing the move from the real economy of industrial production and consumption to the fictitious financial economy, like what exists in the US. For example, the de-industrialization of the US primarily occurred because of the antagonism between decreasing amount of profit and rising wages, but this is not what is occurring in China. Instead of exporting all low-value manufacturing to poorer nations so monopolies can make even more profit, the Chinese central government is automating that level of manufacturing and taking away the privileges that the domestic industrialists have enjoyed so far; thus, we can see that the primary internal contradictions are slowly being resolved, and that China is increasingly heading into the type of classless and harmonious society that was described by Marx and Engels.

I’ve never heard of Russians being identified as Slavic beasts, but I have heard “Asiatic horde” and “orcs”.

To be fair, China is “revisionist” in that it no longer follows a thoroughly centrally-planned economy, publicly advocates for class war against the international bourgeoisie by exporting revolution, and makes defense pacts with other left-wing governments out of ideological solidarity; similar to what existed in the USSR. However, this is not necessarily a bad thing. The Chinese saw that their current model wasn’t improving the quality of life of the people - at least, not as much as they had hoped for; so, they decided to stave from political fundamentalism and strive to do whatever it takes to objectively raise the living standards of the common person; and to accomplish that goal, a mixed economy where the public sector remains dominant was adopted.

At the end of the day, reality is the final arbiter of theory; and reality has greatly rewarded the Chinese.

I think a more interesting question is what China would be like if the reforms and opening up didn’t occur; whether the PRC would have survived, or even thrived, if its’ mode of production wasn’t revamped.

Socialism with Chinese characteristics (SWCC)

“Now… you have forced me to go THERMONUCLEAR!”

🤣

Whatever happens, I hope that the situation in the USSR where there was no clear, competent successor to Stalin does not occur.

I must agree. A lot of people want for Palestine to immediately regain sovereignty over their claimed lands in a single stroke, with all Israelis being deported; but, I don’t think that’s a realistic position to take.

Like you said, a two-state solution is the first step to an unified one-state nation.

Whatever comes out of it will surely have a noticeable impact on the status quo. The Chinese state wouldn’t bother with this if they were confident that it’s a waste of time.

This term is probably Xi’s last one.

I don’t understand. What exactly is the U.S. trying to distract everyone from?

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