Then why does a communist party still govern China? Can someone who subscribes to the conspiracy theory that China is just pretending to be socialist please, please answer me this? What is the purpose of continuing this pretense of communism that is drawing the ire and hostility of the capitalist West? Why this elaborate decades long charade?
If the bourgeoisie rules in China why does it not switch to a liberal bourgeois democracy, like the former Soviet republics and other ex-socialist states did? Or conversely, if pretending to be socialist is somehow in some convoluted way advantageous for the bourgeois class, why do they not do this same game of pretending to be communist in the West?
Why do the West’s bourgeois states and media demonize communists and communist states while in China, which is supposedly also ruled by the bourgeoisie, they do the opposite? Do you think that Chinese bourgeois for some reason just gain some perverse enjoyment from playing pretend when they wouldn’t need to do so to be in charge?
Why do they curtail their own profits by allowing such heavy state regulation and such a large state owned sector of the economy? Why do they not adopt the West’s neoliberal model? And why do they punish themselves much more harshly for corruption than would ever occur under liberal democracy? Please make it make sense.
P.S. mods, if an ultra/lib actually answers me please don’t ban them, i genuinely want to hear their explanation.
Liberals at the same time think Russia is communist while Putin explicitly says they’re as bourgeois as them, and China is capitalist while Xi explicitly speaks about Marxism-leninism.
The recently I talked to a Chinese banker in one of the biggest Chinese banks. We where walking around a beautiful park, which also had a public library in it overlooking the park. A very nice public space overall. Anyway, in the library there was a stack of The Governance of China (third volume) by Xi Jinping on one table. So we talked about it, and it turns out the bankers in China read this book, have classes/study sessions, and try to find ways to implement Xi Jinping thought. Imagine calling a country capitalist when bankers read communist theory and have study sessions for it. That’s China; not a capitalist country, but a socialist country where the party is doing it’s best to develop material conditions, and they have largely been successful.
