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Is China “Socialist”?

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics—Introductory Study Guide

When the United States has a crisis, the government bails out the corporations - When China has a crisis, the government bails out the people

The Class Nature of the Chinese State (A Reply to ‘China’s Long March to Capitalism’)

Socialism Developed China, Not Capitalism

Lenin: Concessions and the Development of Capitalism (1921)

“Will it be possible for private property to be abolished at one stroke? No, no more than existing forces of production can at one stroke be multiplied to the extent necessary for the creation of a communal society. In all probability, the proletarian revolution will transform existing society gradually and will be able to abolish private property only when the means of production are available in sufficient quantity” (Engels, The Principles of Communism, pt. 17).

Lain (%17): “Members of the CPC that own any form of business make up ~5% of the party, with an obvious major domination of petite bourgeoisie in this—the CPC inspects any business of such a member—, while an infinitesimally tiny fraction is within the NPC. Those within the NPC, of which are majority billionaires in this fraction, are there because they are an important aspect of the development of China, but their influence within the NPC, of which is ~3000 members of whom are communists, is nothing beyond aspects pertaining to their business in particular and adhering to the plans of the CPC (bear in mind that decisions within the CPC are unanimous).”

Stock market: “Now, after more than 20 years of experimentation with domestic and international listings, it appears evident that stock markets whose primary function is to trade minority interests in government-controlled companies have not achieved the goal of improving enterprise performance, as China’s leaders originally hoped. Instead, the combination of state monopolies with Wall Street expertise and international capital has led to the creation of national companies that represent little more than the incorporation of China’s old Soviet-style industrial ministries. As for the markets, the government’s determination to prevent real privatization has produced separate classes of shares that are defined almost entirely by one thing: the shareholder’s relationship to the government. And with all aspects of stock market activity regulated, managed, and owned by various state agencies, it is not surprising that non-state investors have become motivated more by speculative opportunities than by investment fundamentals” — Was Deng Xiaoping Right? An Overview of China’s Equity Markets

Property Rights Law of the People’s Republic of China (land cannot be privately owned but leased from the state

Political System/Democracy

Constitution of the People’s Republic of China

Harvard - Over 90% satisfaction in CPC/central govt., majority satisfaction in all local governments

What is China’s Political System?

Explainer: How Seats in China’s National People’s Congress Are Allocated

Who runs the CPC?

Early PRC

Following its establishment, the PRC (from 1950-1957) had over 50% reductions in infant and child mortality and crude death compared to the old system of semi-feudalism and semi-colonialism which the U.S. attempted to enforce and uphold by financing the Kuomintang and a growth in life expectancy (from 1950-1980) which a 2014 study calls “among the most rapid sustained increases in documented global history.”

Revisiting Alleged 30 Million Famine Deaths during China’s Great Leap

Famines in China Pre-PRC:

1907 Great Qing Famine — 25 million dead
1920–1921 North China famine — 0.5 million dead
1928–1930 Chinese famine — 3 million dead
1936–1937 famine — 5 million dead
1942–1943 famine — 2.5 million dead

Imperialism/”Debt Traps”

There Is No Chinese ‘Debt Trap’

Thread on the theoretical basis for Chinese foreign policy by Lain (%17)

China is not a new social imperialist power, debunking CPI’s take on Chinese “social imperialism”

Is China the new imperialist force in Africa?

Five imperialist myths about China’s role in Africa

Thread on China in Africa by Lain (%17)

CPK on China and Africa (audio clip)

LGBT+ Rights Developments

China’s first clinic for transgender children and adolescents set up in Shanghai

Beijing Approves Mutual Guardianship for Gay Couple

Documentary: “A Day of Trans”

CGTN “LGBT in China” Television Series: [1] [2] [3]

According to a 2020 report published in BMC Public Health, “For member[s] of the Chinese LGBT community, the greatest source of pressure to conform to societal norms of sexuality and identity comes from family members—particularly parents.” The report also found that “a higher level of economic development in provinces was associated with a decrease in discrimination, and we identified that every 100 thousand RMB increase in per capita GDP lead to a 6.4% decrease in discriminatory events perpetrated by heterosexuals” and that “The prevalence of this discrimination is associated with the economic development of the province in which it occurs.”

Taiwan

Taiwan is Chinese (PRC)

Taiwanese Comprador Neocolonialism in Eswatini

Tibet

China and Tibet: the Truth

Tibet, imperialism and the right of self-determination

Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth

When Serfs Stood up in Tibet

[Translation] Domenico Losurdo: “China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama”

Hong Kong Protests

Hong Kong Riots: Overview

With People in the Streets Worldwide, Media Focus Uniquely on Hong Kong

You Shouldn’t be Supporting the HK Protests

The NED Strikes Again: Neocon Money is Funding the Hong Kong Protests

Hong Kong’s opposition unites with Washington

“Xinjiang Genocide”

Carrd: Xinjiang and Human Rights (collection of main sources)

Miscellaneous:

Attacks on Xinjiang NYT “Leaked Files” Grammatical Errors/Formatting Mistakes

Use of anti-Islam words to defame Muslims banned on Chinese social media

Adrian Zenz is “Director in China Studies” at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (founded by & funded by the U.S. govt.), which was founded by Nazi collaborators and ghouls

Zenz Falls for Blatant Nonsense [archive of Zenz’s tweet]

“…without the Cold War excuse our foreign policymakers had a real hard time justifying our joint operations and terrorism schemes in the resource-rich ex Soviet states with these same groups, so they made sure they kept their policies unwritten and unspoken, and considering their grip on the mainstream media, largely unreported. Now what would your response be if I were to say on the record, and, if required, under oath: ‘Between 1996 and 2002, we, the United States, planned, financed, and helped execute every major terrorist incident by Chechen rebels (and the Mujahideen) against Russia. Between 1996 and 2002, we, the United States, planned, financed, and helped execute every single uprising and terror related scheme in Xinjiang (aka East Turkistan and Uyghurstan)’” — Sibel Edmonds, FBI Whistleblower