First of all, you have a very small sample size, but more correctly it’s 100% correct to say that China has issues and problems. The idea that to call a system “Socialist” or to say that a party in power is genuinely working towards xyz aims means that the system doesn’t have problems it needs to work on is flawed. You gave the example of Huawei and AliExpress, both companies run for profit. These companies are going to have similar issues to companies in a Capitalist economy, though the safety nets in China are nicer than in many other countries and there is more accountability from the Workers than most Capitalist countries.
Secondly, as for Xi. No, I don’t blindly believe whatever a politician says, however your rant ended up just saying that being popular isn’t necessarily indicative of someone representing the interests of the people. I’d counter that by saying Trump also lost the popular vote twice, while Xi has maintained much higher popularity levels consistently. This doesn’t mean he’s infallible, but we can look at massive campaigns like the Poverty Eradication Campaign or the resurgance of cooperative firms in China, or the campaigns to lower price of medicine through renegotiation, and more to see why he may enioy the support he does.
As for your system not existing in reality, I am specifically questioning why you want that. There is no benefit to Private Ownership at very high levels of development, there is no reason to maintain them. Communism doesn’t exist yet because it is a predicted form of society based on analyzing trends in Mode of Production, specifically in Capitalism. What you are saying as “ideal” only seems possible as a step on the way there.
As for the NEP, there’s a difference between funneling all of profits in an economy with a large private sector towards social safety nets like you seem to be wanting (at which point public ownership entirely is more efficient) and the NEP. The Soviets, for example, had free healthcare (the first of its kind in the modern world) as early as 1919. They used markets and private ownership purely to build up industry before collectivizing, yet still protected their workers and still collectivized.
I have no genuine idea what you mean by “what rules did they set” to ensure this. They literally codified in law higher pay for more skilled or intense labor, and codified in law lower working hours for more dangerous labor at the same pay. This was a part of the USSR’s legal system, I genuinely don’t know what else you want to “ensure” that.
I have been explaining, and I haven’t thrown link after link at you or told you “you don’t understand Communism” like that other commenter implied. I pointed you to studying AES because if you genuinely want to see how some of your ideas would pan out in society, they are your closest bet, and I think you’d rather do your own research rather than take it all from one person’s words.
As for theorycrafting, it isn’t about “fun.” What you’re doing is Utopianism, trying to imagine a better society to create outright, rather than analyzing where society is heading and how we can best steer that. I told you already, Communists don’t really bother much with this, focusing instead on where we are heading based on what we have observed in reality.
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First of all, you have a very small sample size, but more correctly it’s 100% correct to say that China has issues and problems. The idea that to call a system “Socialist” or to say that a party in power is genuinely working towards xyz aims means that the system doesn’t have problems it needs to work on is flawed. You gave the example of Huawei and AliExpress, both companies run for profit. These companies are going to have similar issues to companies in a Capitalist economy, though the safety nets in China are nicer than in many other countries and there is more accountability from the Workers than most Capitalist countries.
Secondly, as for Xi. No, I don’t blindly believe whatever a politician says, however your rant ended up just saying that being popular isn’t necessarily indicative of someone representing the interests of the people. I’d counter that by saying Trump also lost the popular vote twice, while Xi has maintained much higher popularity levels consistently. This doesn’t mean he’s infallible, but we can look at massive campaigns like the Poverty Eradication Campaign or the resurgance of cooperative firms in China, or the campaigns to lower price of medicine through renegotiation, and more to see why he may enioy the support he does.
As for your system not existing in reality, I am specifically questioning why you want that. There is no benefit to Private Ownership at very high levels of development, there is no reason to maintain them. Communism doesn’t exist yet because it is a predicted form of society based on analyzing trends in Mode of Production, specifically in Capitalism. What you are saying as “ideal” only seems possible as a step on the way there.
As for the NEP, there’s a difference between funneling all of profits in an economy with a large private sector towards social safety nets like you seem to be wanting (at which point public ownership entirely is more efficient) and the NEP. The Soviets, for example, had free healthcare (the first of its kind in the modern world) as early as 1919. They used markets and private ownership purely to build up industry before collectivizing, yet still protected their workers and still collectivized.
I have no genuine idea what you mean by “what rules did they set” to ensure this. They literally codified in law higher pay for more skilled or intense labor, and codified in law lower working hours for more dangerous labor at the same pay. This was a part of the USSR’s legal system, I genuinely don’t know what else you want to “ensure” that.
I have been explaining, and I haven’t thrown link after link at you or told you “you don’t understand Communism” like that other commenter implied. I pointed you to studying AES because if you genuinely want to see how some of your ideas would pan out in society, they are your closest bet, and I think you’d rather do your own research rather than take it all from one person’s words.
As for theorycrafting, it isn’t about “fun.” What you’re doing is Utopianism, trying to imagine a better society to create outright, rather than analyzing where society is heading and how we can best steer that. I told you already, Communists don’t really bother much with this, focusing instead on where we are heading based on what we have observed in reality.