China is getting to the point of economic and technological development that they should soon be giving the means of production to the people. It’s time for China to transition into a true socialist state. The test of whether or not they’re real ML is whether they make that transition or not.
Lenin believed the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to be a temporary solution to Russia’s unique economic system (being super underdeveloped, uneducated, and big as fuck.) The whole point being to use the State’s resources to rapidly develop the country until they can establish a true socialist economy. The problem is, they never get that far. If they ever do cross the goal line, they’re just successful MLs
Most MLs I know extoll the achievements of actually existing socialism though, so while that may be true for Lenin I don’t think it is very accurate to Marxist-Leninists.
Sure, that’s a perfectly valid stance to hold. I do think the people of China should make that decision for themselves, democratically, if they are ready or not to make that transition. Much of China is still rural, but I imagine in cities and other more developed areas this could be done currently.
China is getting to the point of economic and technological development that they should soon be giving the means of production to the people. It’s time for China to transition into a true socialist state. The test of whether or not they’re real ML is whether they make that transition or not.
If they don’t, they’re ML. If they do they’re M.
Lenin believed the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to be a temporary solution to Russia’s unique economic system (being super underdeveloped, uneducated, and big as fuck.) The whole point being to use the State’s resources to rapidly develop the country until they can establish a true socialist economy. The problem is, they never get that far. If they ever do cross the goal line, they’re just successful MLs
Most MLs I know extoll the achievements of actually existing socialism though, so while that may be true for Lenin I don’t think it is very accurate to Marxist-Leninists.
Sure, that’s a perfectly valid stance to hold. I do think the people of China should make that decision for themselves, democratically, if they are ready or not to make that transition. Much of China is still rural, but I imagine in cities and other more developed areas this could be done currently.
Yeah… I’m looking forward to the Second Coming, too. I sure do hope these two momentous (and totally real) events don’t occur in the same time slot.