Communism looks good on paper

and looks even better in the real world

    • StonksDiff13@lemmy.today
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      A single group of elites who decide who leads as the next president without any input from the people. This is exactly the definition of concentrated power.

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      Who holds the political power in China

      On executive level? Princelings.

      In the NPC? Worker representatives are 15% vs 50% in the 1970’s. So… bureaucrats and the princelings?

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          This was pointed out to them before, they are repeating this dishonest framing because they’re a Polish nationalist. They pulled a quote from Marx talking about how bad the French state was and applied it to the USSR.