Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 week agoWhat you called “clear worker rights violations,” was just the fact that unions are required to be a part of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, and aren’t allowed to be independent from that federation. This isn’t a violation of worker rights, though, as the only purpose rogue unions would serve is undermining the socialist system, and would be vulnerable to foreign backing (such as from the US Empire).
The socialist state is already run by the working classes, I recommend Roland Boer’s Socialism in Power: On the Theory and History of Socialist Governance to get a better idea of how and why socialist countries hold the structures they do. Roland Boer also has a good book called *Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners, which is more specifically about the PRC and goes beyond the structures of governance to the more broad system of socialism in China.
Fair point those workers trying to organize against unfair labor practices would undermine the state. The state was surely handling super well already actually. /s
Thank you for the reads though i will check those out even if we disagree on this so fat
Rogue unions aren’t simply “workers trying to organize against unfair labor practices,” though, which is my point. There are already unions, and the state already punishes bad actors. There’s extremely minimal grassroots opposition to the socialist system in China, so recognizing this context is important.
And no problem, let me know if you have any questions!
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I’m curious if you have any good video essays, I really enjoy learning while doing things, which is much more difficult with reading, though I have started Socialism With Chinese Characteristics and it is interesting!
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Not nearly as in-depth due to time limits (and mostly focused on the Xi Jinping era) but Red Pen’s A Summary of Xi Jinping’s Governance of China can be a good primer! Really, in order to understand the PRC, you at least need to understand Mao, the Gang of Four, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping. There were other leaders, but these have perhaps had the largest impact on the PRC of today. Xi Jinping Thought upholds Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory, while believing the Gang of Four to have been left-deviationists and the Cultural Revolution to have contained more excess than was worth.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I’ll check these out soon, thanks!
And yeah the formatting was rough lmao, I’ll check some of those out!
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
No problem! The material is great, but unfortunately it needs to be formatted on Prolewiki, haha.