j.r. leonard

There is capital in China. There are markets in China. But ultimately the Chinese economy is controlled and directed by the CPC The first point of ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ is “Ensuring CPC leadership over all forms of work in China”

That is only relevant insofar as the CPC remains a workers party. The number of businessmen in the party and full time bureaucrats has been rising while workers make up a shrinking part. And it's supposed to be DICTATORSHIP of the proletariat not power sharing with the bourgeois.

Yep so 36% get called "frontline" by Xinhua, and in 2012 it was closer to 38% showing a decline. http://english.cpc.people.com.cn/206972/206974/8305636.html … And again, the goal is a worker only party (managers typically get aligned with capital and retirees with investments can be too).

You tankies live in your own reality. Which is a good thing for the rest of us who hope that you never ever get anywhere near the levers of power

Huh. So is the unacceptable position that all power should go to the workers? Or that other existing socialist states were/are closer to the end goal than a nation with billionaires, stock markets, and exploitation of labor? China has its plus sides, it's just not the goal.

You’re defining the world by the terms of your goal as opposed to how things actually exist in the world. That makes you disconnected from reality. And that’s fine. Be disconnected. It just shows me that you shouldn’t be anywhere near power