MarxMadness [comrade/them]

the one where Brad Pitt speaks Jamaican patois

Don’t leave me hanging on this one!

When a socialist society needed to develop its economy enough to maintain internal support and survive against external aggression.

China endured its Century of Humiliation and then a genocidal occupation during WWII. The communists then had to win their civil war, only to immediately face U.S. aggression on their doorstep in Korea, plus hostile U.S. bases all over Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. In 1950 it was a poor, largely pre-industrial country with urgent, existential problems. How quickly were they supposed to build utopia?

Do you think repeating what I said is insightful?

I get it’s a meme and all, but no AES state has ever claimed they’re five years away from a stateless society. You’d be selling out your own people if you dismantled your state while the entire capitalist world wants to kill you.

You can become a billionaire in China, but billionaires don’t control the government there, and the law actually applies to them.