Chinese Capitalist Party (CCP)
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came across this interesting little statistic when searching the internet. The Chinese Communist Party is thought to have more than 80 billionaire delegates in its ranks in 2023
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1746362/china-latest-communist-party-billionaires-spt
Just been having a debate with a leftist trying to tell me that China is “real socialism” and that state-capitalism is “real socialism” as opposed to the utopian dreaming of Marx and Engels (!)
I told him that even Lenin admitted that state-capitalism is not socialism.War threatening between China and Japan over Taiwan.
Half of Taiwan supports China anyway, as half are Kuomintang voters.I told him that even Lenin admitted that state-capitalism is not socialism.
Did he, though?
I think he talked of state capitalism in two different ways. The state capitalism of the capitalist state and the state capitalism of the so-called “proletarian state”, which he seemed to conflate with “socialism”. He also talked of big banks constituting nine-tenths of the socialist apparatus and workers being employees of the state in “socialism”
I think the clearest indication of this conflation of socialism with state capitalism by Lenin was in his 1917 work, The Impending Catastrophe:
“For socialism is merely the next step forward from state-capitalist monopoly. Or, in other words, socialism is merely state-capitalist monopoly which is made to serve the interests of the whole people and has to that extent ceased to be capitalist monopoly”
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/ichtci/11.htm”
For Vladimir Lenin, state capitalism was a step toward socialism, and he also considered that it was beneficial for the working class. He also adopted Leon Trotsky’s concept of the Permanent Revolution
It was Lenin and the Bolsheviks who created the division between socialism and communism, and their followers continue spreading the same distortions.
Soviet leaders never claimed that they were living under a communist society.
The newly elected mayor of New York has said that he is a democratic socialist, but he is not a communist; he must be reading comic books, or the collected works of Tom and Jerry
The billionaires of the so-called Chinese Communist Party are competing with the US billionaires, and some rancid Maoists are still claiming that China is a socialist society, and it was not a socialist society during the time of Mao Zedong either.
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