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• queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Do you want to abolish capitalism? Not just reform it, but completely abolish it.

  That’s the bare minimum.

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  • Wanpieserino@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Your ideology doesn’t have any allies then. It’s used in Cuba and in North Korea. That’s all.

    In Cuba, they are losing ground because the people don’t want the government to have a monopoly on labour.

    North Korea is kim’s paradise

    Your only hope is to brand china communist. But are they?

    “The private sector already accounts for over 60% of GDP, 70% of technological innovation, and, more potently, employs over 80% of the workforce across the country’s urban cities.”

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    • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In both Cuba and the DPRK they’ve been under a brutal siege war from the United States since the revolution, don’t pretend like they struggle for no reason. There are certainly problems, but they can be laid firmly at the feet of the US empire and its proxies.

      But the US won’t be around forever and BRICS is opening the world economy to them. They endured a near century of humiliation and its finally coming to an end, I’m excited to see how they develop without a US boot on their necks! Aren’t you?

      As for China, I was skeptical about the Dengist reforms. It’s like you said, they boosted private sector development and investment. The created billionaires. They allowed for heightened exploitation of workers. They suppressed Maoists.

      They proved politics are still in command with Zero COVID, though. Ever since China’s heroic pandemic response I am optimistic that the private sector is subordinate. They’re willing and able to tell their billionaires “no” and force them to obey.

      See, the purpose of the Dengist reforms was to develop China’s economy as fast as possible while avoiding Western retaliation, like what happens to every other communist country that becomes the subject of endless siege and proxy warfare, and it worked. Unlike under capitalism where the anarchy of the market dictates production, China has its productive capacity firmly under the control of the government. They still issue marching orders to the private sector and they centrally plan their development.

      China is now a world leader in technological innovation and is critical to the global supply chain as a key node of production. As much as Trump wants to do a trade war he’s more likely to hurt the US than to actually hurt China. China is still dominated by the capitalist mode of production, like you said, but since the Party remains in command they’ll be able to abolish the market entirely without fear of Western retaliation. Capitalism is just a stage of development, after all.

      Also, don’t ignore Vietnam. They have been on a similar trajectory as China, developing their economy and integrating themselves into the supply chain, and now they’re growing closer with China with every new idiot tariff imposed by Trump.

      I find that “”“social democrats”“” are just pessimists. You think revolution never works and communism always fails, and so you retreat into reformism and liberalism. I still have revolutionary optimism, though, which means I don’t even need to win this argument. I’m certain that you’ll see that I’m right soon enough. ☺️

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      • Wanpieserino@lemm.ee ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So you agree that capitalism is the best way to develop a country. So, capitalism is good? It relocates everytime to a poorer country. Developing that country.

        At the end, the whole world will be developed. I’m not an anarchist, so I’m quite fond of governments creating stability in their region. (Not a revolutionary indeed).

        North Korea and Cuba joining globalist trade is fine by me. Cuba already sends out their doctors abroad.

        Cuba trades a lot with Spain and China.

        Problem though. Their doctors would earn more money in other Latin American countries. Which they often do. They emigrate to one of those countries and then have their family live a luxurious life in Havana.

        This is because in those other countries, even though same level of wealth, they are self employed as doctors. They get the entire fruits of their labour :)

        Competition is very important. Just like you don’t want Elon musk to be a monopolist, you don’t want a government to be a monopolist either. Competition is necessary.

        I don’t know much about Vietnam, so I didn’t talk about them. Their language makes me go insane not gonna lie 🥲

        I did watch documentaries about Cuba though, so talking a bit more about that.

        I’m not a fan of revolutions. Look at Libya and Syria. Revolutions aren’t good.

        If you want to do a revolution, you better accept to live a full generation in pure poverty in the hope that your children will have it better.

        Then compare it to a place that has been having stability in the same period.

        The place with stability will be stronger on the global scene most likely. Such as Switzerland Vs the rest of Europe that were involved in world war 2.

        Stability means growth.

        You view me as a pessimist and I view you as a pessimist. You see no other way out than revolution.

        I can assure you, in my day to day life I am the optimist. My wife’s rather pessimistic aha.

        Like when trump crashed the market and I pumped it full. My wife was like “you’re having a baby, you need to be careful”.

        Right now the stocks look green af.

        I’m saying I’mma take a 100k euros mortgage.

        She’s like “we’re having a baby, can you even afford that?”

        Tsk tsk tsk 🌝

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