Hello! I would like to start off by apologizing because I know a thread like this gets posted every other day and it can border on (or actually be) concern-trolling, but I wanted to get a rough survey of opinions here on a topic.
Specifically, do you have any criticisms of China's contemporary culture? Its government? What are they?
I'm of the opinion that there are a lot of low-hanging fruit in this regard, like the patriarchal social order that [whatever one might say about its status in other nations] is certainly an ongoing problem for the matter of women's liberation. I also think it's both socially backwards and bad for national security to not have gay marriage, because we're all familiar with how the US loves infiltrating student movements.
I also rather regret how the CPC seems to be trending towards expanding the role of the profit motive rather than shrinking it. See these statements:
http://en.qstheory.cn/2023-05/04/c_882761.htm
http://en.qstheory.cn/2023-05/05/c_882998.htm
Do you agree with these points? Do you have your own criticisms? Am I totally off-base? Let me know!
(btw I'm also familiar with the idea of sharing criticism with comrades but finding public criticism to be counter-productive, but I don't want to spend all day listing caveats)
Ok, so my thing is that I would say I'm a "soft" anti-Dengist, meaning that I think it has demonstrably worked and I think China is clearly still a DoP controlled by dedicated ML's, but I'm not 100% convinced it couldn't have developed along the lines of the USSR and gotten to this same point without the risk of redeveloping the bourgeois as a class. I'm sure someone who has studied China far more than me will swing by and call me a liberal or something though (and I'll deserve it lol)
I also don't quite understand why they're not more quickly moving back towards a fully planned economy, the forces of production seem plenty developed to me, and the United States has shown that they're going to move into full blown cold war (or god forbid even hot war) within the next few years, so I'm not sure how much foreign capital is even left to take in. Maybe they're waiting to have a completely self sufficient semiconductor industry or something like that?
The CPC isn't deciding these things based on ideology. They are following popular sentiment. Don't start with a question about culture and just seamlessly transition to blaming the CPC
? Garbageshoot said "just give me anything that you can be persuaded to talk about" so I thought this would apply. And I'm not trying to "blame" the CPC, I don't think they're failing the country or anything that drastic, I just think there are alternative pathways that are less risky imo.
I was late in checking up on things but I appreciate what you shared