You did not look at the resources I sent lmao. Do you have any sources for your claims?

China is a one party system.

False. Even Wikipedia can debunk your claims. There are nine parties in China, which work together in consultation on policy. Boer has a whole chapter on this. There is no requirement of party membership for running in elections and they have tons of elections. The reason they don’t have a bunch of spectacle where people pretend they hate each other and the president is whomever can procure the most money and be the most charismatic like the US is because they manage their contradictions non-antagonistically (another thing Boer talks about).

China doesn’t perform well on living standard.

A laughable statement. China is doing better than the US. But, the US has centuries of imperialism it benefits from, so why compare it to China, when India is more comparable and has 7 years lower life expectancy.

Too many homeless and a great part of the population lives in poverty.

Of all the things to accuse China of, that is not it.

Work week is 6 days a week and 12 hours a day.

You really need to source these claims. Anyway, labor rights are increasing year by year. They a whole lot better than other countries with large manufacturing industry.

There’s not one thing China is the best at when it comes to welfare and living standards.

My shock when a country that’s less than a 100 years out of its century of humiliation isn’t the absolute best at everything.

So no, it’s by no means a great example.

Eliminating poverty, , leading the world by far in technological innovation, and being the largest economy not too long after being a feudal backwater without colonies isn’t exemplary?

Why do you care? Star Trek is fictional, but socialism is real and democratic, moving toward communism (like Star Trek).

China is by no means perfect, but far more democratic than the US “beacon of democracy” ever was. There’s a reason over 90% are happy with their government. https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#is-china-a-democracy

They are also a good example of the practice of scientific socialism. They’ve extensively studied the Soviet Union as to avoid their mistakes. They also study the contradictions of their society to develop harmonically. I recommend Roland Boer’s Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: a Foreigner’s Guide.

It’s definitely worth reading, but you should also read more up to date books that aren’t totally blackpilled.

I got very addicted to Pokemon go for a week very recently, but I quit.

I’d call half a trillion in a year a lot. Nonetheless I agree so much more needs to be done especially in a collaborative way, but isolated China’s holding their weight especially compared to the United States and Europe.

You’re serious, aren’t you?

Maybe, I used BandLab online when I was making music, but more recently I’ve used GarageBand solely for non music stuff.

That reminds me of, in Socialism with Chinese Characteristics where Boer writes about how China aims to project cultural confidence without trying to be hegemonic and egotistical. Just presenting positive aspects of their culture to the world.

Interesting. IMO race is meaningless, but it makes sense to want to hold on to culture. As a settler myself, I understand the Chicano impulse to try to invent culture to hold on to. However, as I’m pretty sure they point out in the podcast, they’re ok with settlers if they actually put in the work to understand the culture and help people survive. The problem is they feel entitled to be their equals without actually doing anything to deserve it. They maintain a settler attitude while putting on a false facade. In terms of extreme non-white identity movements, I understand why they’d go there, but I won’t condone it. They are still wrong and can still cause harm with false consciousness. I recognize Bin Laden was right in some ways, but he was still a reactionary and I definitely wouldn’t condone ISIS. Hindu nationalists are fascist, there’s no denying. There’s also a problem with some black nationalist movements that they can be almost like controlled opposition. Denying realities that could be put to the advantage and sometimes even shifted into anti-indigenous sentiment and right-libertarianism.

It’s a satirical article and I didn’t know where else to post

There are other decent figures who are younger. Vijay Prishad is only 55. We’ve got everyone in the revleft podcast family. In addition, more zoomer centered figures like the deprogram people and hasan.