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I'm gonna be honest, some people in these circles have a way too delusional view of China for my liking, and will defend basically every part of it.
I personally think you don't have to do that. There's a lot of problems in China, and it doesn't make you a "bad Marxist" to admit that. I still support it however, while it's not perfect I wouldn't say it's a capitalist country like the U.S. and I think the world is a better place with China in it than if the U.S. had zero competition in the world stage.
The U.S., Brazil, and India all have far-right crazies in charge. Can you imagine the world if China wasn't what it is? The world would literally be dominated by fascists. I'll always prefer a "not so perfect" communism to fascism and shit like that. God knows what kinda leadership China would have right now if it wasn't for the communist party.
Yeah, I wish it was better and I do think there are serious issues. But compared to the alternatives, I'm glad China exists and I support them.
China isn’t facist? How so? So they don’t suppress other opinions and cultures? They don’t lock up and kill people they don’t like? They are not imperialistic? They’re not almost an autocracy?
You are a bad Marxist because you didn’t understand or read his works carefully. For Marx, Capitalism was a necessary evil to reach true communism. A vehicle. He predicted technological and social advances, step-by-step, until we reach communism. So to debate which country is a „good communist country“ is moot as there can’t be real communism yet.
Whether it is China or the western world who’ll reach true communism first will have to be seen. I for one see Europe ahead of China and especially the US, as Europe - at least ideologically - strives to make everyone equal under the law / give everyone the same opportunities. It has homework to do on tue technological front, but that’s nothing unachievable. Whereas culturally, China and the US are better technology wise but far away socially and culturally.
I think sometimes people (myself included) will joke that "China does nothing wrong" mainly because it is the opposite of the liberal mentality of "everything that happens in China is bad, even the objectively good stuff, like curing cancer (but at what cost?!)"
Some people might take the joke a bit too far sometimes, or someone who is fairly new to socialism might go a bit too far, but most tend to calm down after a while.
Which defenses have you found to be problematic in these supposed circles, enough to warrant the title of 'delusional'? Have you realized we're in a new cold war, with an increasing possibility of a hot war by the day? What need is there for any western leftist's unheard "nuance" in the current moment? You see people defending the PRC fiercely because they understand the stakes and rightly treat a dangerous moment with utmost seriousness.
Why are you telling us this and not bringing your vague concerns to the CPC itself? What is the reason any western leftist even brings this up in the first place anyway?
OK, and so that means you can't say 1 bad thing about China? That makes no sense, especially in our circles. I understand defending China when talking with liberals or conservatives, cause they have no right criticizing China when they support systems that are 20x times worse and more cruel.
But I don't understand why a leftist shouldn't be able to bring up the number of billionaires in China, for example, when talking to other leftists without being labeled as some sort of traitor or propagandist or some other dumb bullshit. "They have less and more regulated billionaires than the U.S." -- yeah, I think that's awesome, I would still prefer if billionaires didn't exist though. And me saying that doesn't mean I'm equating China to the U.S.
Or human rights -- yeah, I know and constantly criticize the U.S. on their human rights violations -- what kind of hypocrite would I be if then I stay silent or just says "well, the U.S. is worse" when China is brought up. Fuck that.
Leftists that don't support American/western bullshit should absolutely have a right to level reasonable criticism towards China or any Marxist country.
You're acting like I'm putting my criticism of China above criticism of the U.S. and other countries when that is clearly not what I said. I said I support China, but that shouldn't mean complete blindness and absolute support in absolutely every fragment of their rule.
I should be allowed to think their economic system isn't perfect without getting berated that "you just don't get it, it's all part of the plan man, just wait a few more years, you'll see." I'm not calling for the destruction of Chinese communism or saying the U.S.'s system is better for fucks sake.
What is this even supposed to mean???
Because you're allowed to criticize stuff you support dude. What, if China tomorrow started, I don't know, killing gay people for example, should I just not talk about it ever?? Come on, don't be such babies. Or if you have a friend that you love and support, is it a sin to criticize them or call them out when they're doing something bad?
So, are you like a paid Chinese Internet turfer or what? Does it pay better than genociding Muslims in the concentration camps?