It’s not loose at all. The means of production are currently controlled by the bourgeoisie through private ownership and the bourgeois state. If instead those are transferred to state ownership controlled by the proletariat it is then under their control. The CPC structure itself plays a major role here.
Now I realize the second sentence is referencing a general capitalist society and the the third a communist. I thought the second was referencing China.
I’m going to have to tap out, because I have an acquired disability which makes long, dense reading very difficult, but I’ve pulled up a few academic papers on the Chinese economy and I’ll be slowly reading them a few paragraphs at a time. Cheers.
I’m sorry if I wrote too much! I would have chunked things up a bit more if I had known.
I do hope this has been interesting. That Harvard study is particularly useful in breaking down the (racist/orientalist) idea that the Chinese people are all somehow under a magic spell that controls them all through either omnipotent threat of harm or propaganda. A silly premise for a society.
Nah don’t worry, it’s much easier to pretend I’m normal, since I can fake it pretty well. I just don’t want to disappoint you with a sub-par conversation partner, and I’m struggling to parse, anyway. Thanks for the starting points, I’ll dig deeper at my own pace.
Now I realize the second sentence is referencing a general capitalist society and the the third a communist. I thought the second was referencing China.
I’m going to have to tap out, because I have an acquired disability which makes long, dense reading very difficult, but I’ve pulled up a few academic papers on the Chinese economy and I’ll be slowly reading them a few paragraphs at a time. Cheers.
I’m sorry if I wrote too much! I would have chunked things up a bit more if I had known.
I do hope this has been interesting. That Harvard study is particularly useful in breaking down the (racist/orientalist) idea that the Chinese people are all somehow under a magic spell that controls them all through either omnipotent threat of harm or propaganda. A silly premise for a society.
Nah don’t worry, it’s much easier to pretend I’m normal, since I can fake it pretty well. I just don’t want to disappoint you with a sub-par conversation partner, and I’m struggling to parse, anyway. Thanks for the starting points, I’ll dig deeper at my own pace.