• deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    Oh, the government is separated into smaller local and regional governments and less than 10% of all Chinese citizens (there are 1.4 billion) are members of the CCP? Cool fun facts, I always love to learn, but you did not answer my question.

    Does the government of the People’s Republic of China support and protect the legal right of the working class to control the means of production?

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      7 hours ago

      Public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy, and the working class is in control of the state. These are the basic requirements for socialism, at least in the Marxist understanding. I’m not sure what exactly you are referring to, a petite bourgeois cooperative quasi-socialism? If the working class directing the economy, as I already explained is the case in China, isn’t “controlling the means of production,” what exactly is your vision here? Because it certainly isn’t standard.

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        5 hours ago

        So… no protections, no real policy, no solid connection between the working class and power except for this notion that the government has the interests of the working class at heart. Is that right?

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_by_net_worth

        Read through the above list and tell me these people must work for a living, that they could not live solely off of their assets. Why are these 607 people allowed to hoard such massive wealth and own so much if the working class controls the means of production and the economy? How is that good for anyone?