excellent thread all around. excellent work from our comrades on lemmygrad. thank you to our mod for putting up the firewall between us and lemm.ee

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I havenā€™t only read Wikipedia, Iā€™ve read things such as interviews from former Chinese citizens saying that Google was banned, and on their search engine the tiennamen square never existed. Also, how is China becoming more communist? The government getting profits from wage-slavery isnā€™t becoming more communist, itā€™s becoming the center of capitalism. Even if the government werenā€™t making direct profits from wage-labor, they still make profits from things like taxes and corporations buying land. When the government is making profits from capitalism, they wonā€™t go socialist.

You do know the Tiennamen square is the literal most famous place in China right? Itā€™s the place where there is this super famous building that is one of the countryā€™s symbol and that almost every content about China ever canā€™t help but have at least one picture of.

So saying that the name of the place is censored in China is completely ridiculous.

As pointed out by others, the event that you are referring to is known in China as the june 4th incident so yes, of course if you type Tiennamen in the search bar you wonā€™t find it, when you look up something on a non-english website maybe try to look up how the thing youā€™re looking for is called in the siteā€™s language instead of assuming itā€™s called the same way in english you westernbrained monkey.


Why do you enjoy sucking your own dick?

Because I donā€™t have the reading comprehension skills of a fucking carrot.

Why do you not have the reading comprehension of a fucking carrot?


Marx said that the state was inherently oppressive. But I guess I missed the part where he said that it doesnā€™t matter if the party brands itself as communist.

If you bake a cake and you have this magnificent idea in your head; do you gather all the ingredients and then presto magic you have a beautiful cake in front of you? Or is there some sort of process thatā€™s missing? Some sort of transitionary period?

Thereā€™s a reason itā€™s called Marxist-Leninism too, older works can be superseded or reanalyzed by newer works in a more refined context.

Baking doesnā€™t cook down the ingredients and claim itā€™s heating them up.

In that case, why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?

You could call any machine anything, yet it doesnā€™t become the thing.

Yes it does. A name inherently defines the characteristics of whatever itā€™s being used for. For example, the names your mother calls me during sex defines the intrinsic nature of our relationship, that is me being the oppressive dom authority figure (because Iā€™m a tankie), and her the submissive proletariat.


Marx said that the state was inherently oppressive. But I guess I missed the part where he said that it doesnā€™t matter if the party brands itself as communist.

Where did he say that? Can you quote the passage?

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

-the Communist manifesto

Where in that quote does it say that, to use your words, ā€˜the state was inherently oppressiveā€™?

While this quote does not encapsulate marxā€™s entire view on the state, it shows that Marx sees that the state is bourgeois and therefore antagonistic to the proletariat.

chatgpt answer if Iā€™ve ever seen one.


The state is inherently antagonistic to the proletariat, because their controlling society gives rise to them creating their own class within the bourgeoisie.

Ehhhhhhhht wrong. What did Engles say about the state in On Authority? Thereā€™s literally a whole ass book called State and Revolution that you definitely havenā€™t read.

Lol ā€œcreating their own class within the bourgeoisieā€ šŸ˜­ I bet the smug was on a milli when you typed that out

Power = authority is wild. Was freeing slaves authoritarian because the majority didnā€™t support it?

READ THE BOOKS MOTHERFUCKER šŸ—£ļøšŸ—£ļøšŸ—£ļøšŸ—£ļø


I personally view [freedom of a populace] as that if you canā€™t allow people to see other viewpoints, then material conditions donā€™t matter. As John Stuart Mill said in On Liberty, the personā€™s ability to choose for themself is more important than an alleged better living condition. Furthermore, I see that if China were so much better, they would let their people see the alternative. By not letting their people see something they allege is worse, they prove it is better.

Said by someone who has never really been hungry,

Ha yes, Iā€™m sure having fucking google make the homeless in NY city sooo much better off than the peoples living in nice cheap apartments in Beijing. Tell me youā€™ve never been poor without telling me youā€™ve never been poor. šŸ¤”


Again, I do not argue for capitalism, I agree with Stalin on this quote. Iā€™m saying that I can go into whatever forum I want, and say that Joe Biden is committing genocide, and I donā€™t disappear, I donā€™t ā€œkill myselfā€ in my hotel room. Iā€™m not defending capitalism, as I am a communist. The condition in which the worker lives is irreconcilable the universal liberty, however if China is socialism, in terms of liberty, they would be the same. I believe that socialism could be so much better. I believe that China could be so much better and it will be someday. But the state will not allow it.

You have to be a troll. But - youā€™re a pretty funny one. A Boeing whistleblower ā€˜killed himself in a hotel roomā€™ literally just last week. You can yell at Joe Biden however much you want, heā€™s still gonna commit genocide without blinking.

for context, the Stalin quote: ā€œIt is difficult for me to imagine what ā€˜personal libertyā€™ is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possibleā€ (https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1936/03/01.htm)


Let me simplify it for you. It doesnā€™t matter if they allegedly have better material conditions when they canā€™t view information contrary to the state.

Hey yā€™all it doesnā€™t matter if you lift billions of people out of poverty and they never have to worry about certain material conditions and therefore improve their quality of life, what makes a society better is being able to ā€œview information contrary to the stateā€.


ā€œThis society is great. Iā€™m glad every source is monitored by the Chinese government, thatā€™s how you know theyā€™re factual.ā€

This but unironically

do check out the full thread, as always our comrades on lemmygrad are both intelligent and graceful. order-of-lenin

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    I loved that he kept demanding I give him sources, but I already did, and he ignored them because I wasnā€™t presenting them to him for him to slap away. Made his ā€œyou keep refusing to provide sources!ā€ screeching hilarious, because he just didnā€™t even notice.