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 havenāt only read Wikipedia, Iāve 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 isnāt becoming more communist, itās becoming the center of capitalism. Even if the government werenāt 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 wonāt go socialist.
You do know the Tiennamen square is the literal most famous place in China right? Itās the place where there is this super famous building that is one of the countryās symbol and that almost every content about China ever canāt 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 wonāt find it, when you look up something on a non-english website maybe try to look up how the thing youāre looking for is called in the siteās language instead of assuming itās called the same way in english you westernbrained monkey.
Why do you enjoy sucking your own dick?
Because I donāt 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 doesnāt 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 thatās missing? Some sort of transitionary period?
Thereās a reason itās called Marxist-Leninism too, older works can be superseded or reanalyzed by newer works in a more refined context.Baking doesnāt cook down the ingredients and claim itās heating them up.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 doesnāt become the thing.
Yes it does. A name inherently defines the characteristics of whatever itās 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 Iām 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 doesnāt 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 manifestoWhere in that quote does it say that, to use your words, āthe state was inherently oppressiveā?
While this quote does not encapsulate marxās entire view on the state, it shows that Marx sees that the state is bourgeois and therefore antagonistic to the proletariat.
chatgpt answer if Iāve 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? Thereās literally a whole ass book called State and Revolution that you definitely havenāt read.
Lol ācreating their own class within the bourgeoisieā š I bet the smug was on a milli when you typed that outPower = authority is wild. Was freeing slaves authoritarian because the majority didnāt support it?
READ THE BOOKS MOTHERFUCKER š£ļøš£ļøš£ļøš£ļø
I personally view [freedom of a populace] as that if you canāt allow people to see other viewpoints, then material conditions donāt matter. As John Stuart Mill said in On Liberty, the personās 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, Iām 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 youāve never been poor without telling me youāve never been poor. š¤”
Again, I do not argue for capitalism, I agree with Stalin on this quote. Iām saying that I can go into whatever forum I want, and say that Joe Biden is committing genocide, and I donāt disappear, I donāt ākill myselfā in my hotel room. Iām 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 - youāre a pretty funny one. A Boeing whistleblower ākilled himself in a hotel roomā literally just last week. You can yell at Joe Biden however much you want, heās still gonna commit genocide without blinking.
for context, the Stalin quote: āIt is difficult for me to imagine what āpersonal 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 doesnāt matter if they allegedly have better material conditions when they canāt view information contrary to the state.
Hey yāall it doesnāt 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 āview information contrary to the stateā.
āThis society is great. Iām glad every source is monitored by the Chinese government, thatās how you know theyāre factual.ā
This but unironically
do check out the full thread, as always our comrades on lemmygrad are both intelligent and graceful.
I loved that he kept demanding I give him sources, but I already did, and he ignored them because I wasnāt presenting them to him for him to slap away. Made his āyou keep refusing to provide sources!ā screeching hilarious, because he just didnāt even notice.