Post #2290606

2026-05-09 15:31 UTC

Learning and critique are the same thing. If you look at China and go “this is perfect in every way and we should copy it,” then you aren’t actually learning anything at all. In my experience MLs don’t get angry with anarchists and others critical of China because they don’t learn from Chinese socialism, but because they don’t like the conclusions they’ve made.

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@9skyguy0@lemmy.ml 2026-05-09 16:02

If you look at China and go “this is perfect in every way and we should copy it,” then you aren’t actually learning anything at all MLs do not hold this view. China isn’t perfect, and copying their model completely wouldn’t work at all. The Soviet Union, China, and the DPRK all use different models of socialism.

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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-05-13 12:23

No ML makes the point that China is perfect, nor that we should copy it. Perfection is an impossibility, and China’s model of socialism is the socialism suited to China, not to be dogmatically copied. Every country will have their own socialist construction process suited to their own conditions, China being highly agrarian at the time of its revolution has had a dramatic impact on how it has pursued socialism.

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