Is China Socialist? (No) | "Against Dengism" (2022) by Red Spectre (from S4A Livestream 116)

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Is China Socialist? (No) | "Against Dengism" (2022) by Red Spectre (from S4A Livestream 116)

Socialism For All / S4A ☭

May 14, 2024

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Link to article: https://github.com/Red-Spectre/Info/blob/main/Against%20Dengism.md

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro & Table of Contents

1:42 Is China Socialist? (Does Capital Exist in China?)

9:00 "It's Socialism with Chinese Characteristics! It's adapted to local conditions!"

12:13 "But they kill billionaires! Why would a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie do that?"

15:20 "The CPC has bad factions in it, but Xi Jinping is fighting to restore/preserve the dictatorship of the proletariat!"

20:48 "What about poverty reduction?"

23:01 "Isn't it just like Lenin's NEP?"

36:28 If capital must take control of the state, why did the USSR survive the NEP to continue socialist construction?

42:14 When discussing productive forces, we cannot forget the relations of production

51:50 When do we know that the relations of production ought to change?

1:01:52 When can the absence of such transition be used to detect a reactionary state?

1:05:48 Thanks to the patrons

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