Marketing is for shit-for-brains, is the main problem here. The workers, once exposed to what socialism is in a correct form, become skeptical of exploitation, especially marketing.
Smartening up the deliberately-infantilised workers, who are kept ignorant & pliable on purpose, is the way. Or else you simply believe education is impossible just because education is trash in the “west”.
Properly define authoritarian before using it as a thought-terminating scare word, & you will come to the conclusion that it is simply used to conjure up stereotypical images about certain peoples & their governments.
How do I know this? Because it is so abstract as to be meaningless without further context, & the further context makes countries like China look like fully-realised communism compared to the coloniser states.
Contradictions & struggle increase under a socialist system; they do not evaporate overnight. It’s not easy, & every Party that has led a socialist state is extremely aware that the struggle for communism gets even harder under socialism, because socialism needs to deal with resurgent bourgeois elements, provide for healthcare, establish & defend all the peoples rights (housing, work according to personal ability, healthy food, clean water).
Most importantly it needs to constantly try to get all the people involved in the political sphere with constant bottom-up appointments and elections for leadership and also deal with constant feedback from below and surveying/referenda. And unlike other systems, socialism involves self-criticism & the Party keeping each other honest, on the path, & meeting planning goals (or else you get Yugoslavia).
Anti-corruption must be an even stronger priority under socialism. The Xi era is markedly better for socialism than the era starting with Deng. The CPC has already been reshuffling & getting rid of corrupt actors/aspirant bourgeoisie in the military & in civilian sectors. The remants of capital in the form of Chinese billionaires live terrified lives for a good reason, & their assets are ultimately on-condition & used to sabotage them (by appropriating & investing in all-China development instead of letting them buy political power). This would not have happened if China’s socialist revolution somehow just reverted to feudalism/early capitalism. Instead, maybe there would be a Brezhnev-like “maintenance era” of stagnation (that was a bit better than Khruschev but still bad, and did not correct the political damage done by the preceding one).
We would not see enormous developmental progress, very high civic engagement, low crime, & imcreasing arts-&-culture exports, & potential world-leader status, nor would we see favourable trade terms with other countries & “pay when you can” loans to those ravaged by colonialism, nor would we see unwillingness to engage in shared pillage exploits (ie. military alliances formed to harass poor nations). All of the above happening at the same time is an unfathomable contradiction in a capitalist country.
The evidence just does not show that the CPC are doing such a bad job cultivating socialism that an ultra-left civil war is necessary to course-correct for Deng. Moreover, another civil war in China is implicitly an endorsement of the imperial order, and I hope you aren’t seriously suggesting the neocolonial capitalist slaver bloc ought to go on unopposed.
Why are you framing people’s democracy as less democratic than bourgeois dictatorship?
Thank you for this, comrade! I have not gotten to Volume 2 yet. When I do I will see what I can add to this (too addicted to reading Lenin at the moment)
How are there still Guzmanoids? Is it just for the same reason Trotskyites lasted so long with such a high profile (threat level zero/sink for potential comrades)
Diesen is like a lost child in the woods/deer in the headlights sometimes. I genuinely think the guy is qualified & very fair-minded, but his face just looks like he’s just seen a new lifeform.
He needs to drop Big River Nostradamus but otherwise his guests are only between 5 & 35% nuts.
This might be useful. It has Lenin’s collected works in Korean which can be downloaded to read offline. Could be good for the mixtape USB https://www.marxists.org/korean/index.htm Obviously let her know the Trotsky section is for humour purposes only.
Mao is always an easy read packed with meaning if that’s too dense to start.
Hard to tell. Nowadays PatSocs they say that some landlords are good & encourage their people to rent properties, if Infracel is any indication of their “thought”
Most NATO chiefs of staff, upper rank personnel, were pulled directly from former “definitely rehabilitated” Nazi ranks after WW2. Adolf Heusinger, Hans Speidel, Karl Schnell, Dr. Eberhard Taubert (literal Goebbels co-worker), etc. etc.
It should come as no surprise that Germany is pushing hard for other NATO members to increase military spending or why they would deepen integration with the fascist US regime.
The Reich no longer needs a cultivated clean image after years of running cover after the horror of WW2.