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Why do "Communist" desperatly need a lone male leader in power of an only self described communist/socialist state to see their communist utopia? Marx wrote his theories i a very specific time. Im pretty sure he didnt think of stalins reign when he wrote about the means of production.
Try reading âStalin â the History and Critique of a Black Legendâby Domenico Losurdo. And if you mind, please tell me whatâs not socialist about e.g. China?
That's easy: private ownership of means of production is not socialist.
I will even include another non socialist fact : China has billionaires (in US$). Those should not exist in a socialist country.
Is it that easy?
Socialism is a process. Socialism isnât communism. Socialism isnât âthe state owns everythingâ. Even Lenin argues that capitalists must be employed in the service of the new socialist state, but have to be suppressed under proletarian rule. I would say, thatâs happening in China? And thatâs what makes the blood of Western capitalists and their media outlets boil.
So I really donât get why we shouldnât support the biggest country that ever tried to implement communism? What do we get â except from despair â from denying the efforts China makes?
Sure, you can see it that way and I wouldn't even argue it's illogical. But the way socialism was taught in GDR is the definition I gave above and China is not socialist under that definition.
Read Engels