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[–] nanoUFO 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They better love capitalism, China is capitalist

[–] goat 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah... I never understood the "words are louder than actions" susceptibility there, but I can't complain overly much as my country's own partisan politics is rife with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Marxist theory explicitly states that capitalist systems might be a necessary step towards socialism. This is largely the premise Dengism was based on, using profit motives and foreign investment to build infrastructure until,

In Theory (TM)

Society is ready to both meet the physical needs of everyone and dissolve all heirarchy, aka the guvment.

I'm not sure how much comfort that is to the workers in factories with suicide netting.