Post #2502663

2026-05-13 17:10 UTC

China took advantage of the technology gap and capital flooding That’s a funny way of spelling child labor and sweat shops. Yes I recognize how China has leveraged its position. No, I do not accept that China is socialist. I think whatever China is, is new — what isn’t new is human fallibility. Certainly can’t be socialism, because they wouldn’t need to force billionaires to be philanthropists — the billionaires wouldn’t exist. Like surely I’m not the only one who sees the hypocrisy there? This isn’t even meant to be a ‘gotcha’ — how do you maintain that China is a socialist country with rapidly growing wealth inequality? Is it because the odd billionaire get’s popped every now and again or is forced to donate a large sum of their money? Seriously? I’m not going to sit here and say ‘America #1’ because I don’t believe that and haven’t for decades. Let me put it this way, I think that if this meeting between U.S. billionaires + Trump in China ends without a single one of these individuals being arrested — I have my answer on where China really stands.

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@QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 2026-05-13 17:22

Let me put it this way, I think that if this meeting between U.S. billionaires + Trump in China ends without a single one of these individuals being arrested — I have my answer on where China really stands. “If China doesn’t declare war on the US they’re not real socialists”.

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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-05-13 17:34

You’re defining socialism as “no billionaires,” which means “no private property,” which means “no transition at all between capitalism and communism.” There’s no hypocrisy here, you have a fundamentally flawed understanding of what constitutes socialism, which is working class control of the state and an economy where public ownership is principal, both of which apply to China. This fundamentally flawed outlook is why you’re saying China isn’t truly socialist if they don’t immediately declare war on the US Empire and potentially plunge the world into nuclear war, purely to satisfy an online commenter. You see socialism not as a mode of production, but purely violence against capitalists. This is just a worship of adventurism, not a commitment to ending class society through scientific analysis of development and the conquest of political and economic power via revolution, which China completed in 1949.

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