thoughts on these critiques:
- I mean, I don’t think it’s a camp so much so as it is reality. Dengism has pushed forth a disastrous capitalist restoration that every single CPC government has done ever since, workers have been continually disenfranchised and chinese capitalists pop up everywhere and establish businesses that exploit the proletariat
- how can a country be a dotp without its basis of government being soviets they give bourgeois the right to vote and participate in government.
- Beijing has legally and specifically preserved capitalist governance where it can during dengism (Basic Laws in Macau, Hong Kong), but even Hong Kong is being outcapitalisted by the mainland, with Shanghai and even Shenzhen surpassing Hong Kong in terms of commerce and trade, points of great pride for Beijing despite this very clearly not being socialist
- the 1918 russian constitution officially denied political power to the nobility and bourgeoisie anyway, universal right to vote is inherently bourgeois. ALL POWER TO THE SOVIETS this is very basic stuff
it’s not about purity, if workers don’t control their workplace they still need mechanisms to assert themselves against their employer collectively. even if there’s no formal structure you can’t completely prevent wildcat strikes, spontaneous walkouts etc. the siege isn’t an excuse to not provide PPE or something that the government might not act quickly enough on.
You’re going to have to convey you at least understand the counter-perspective otherwise you just come across as a chauvinist bigot.
Why the white-mans-burden perpsective? You can’t help yourself? Even if what you say is true (it’s not), it’s a worker’s state and therefore it’s their contradiction to resolve; you’re giving the impression of larping while conveniently dovetailing western hegemonic narratives. Plenty of NGOs that fit this mould crying crocodile tears.
Think what the logical end point of what you are implying; you feel workers’ rights have not been sufficiently addressed and they ultimately do not have an outlet to address this… in a worker’s state. Which means you really don’t think it is one.
Westernism is a disease.
what white-mans-burden? i’m saying workers need to have mechanisms to refuse work under unsafe conditions, dispute management, etc. the details are up to them.
If a state has achieved socialist revolution already, then their foremost task becomes the historic defeat of international capital. After that, may the unions flourish and all employers weep. The proletariat of the USSR enjoyed comforts that they have not known since the triumph of international Capital in the 1990s - turns out their (state controlled) employers were the least of their problems.
and the workers, short of literally self-administering… i’m repeating myself.
I’m a bit tired so I’m not sure I’m following.
I agree that workplace protections and whatnot should be provided by any AES state - and China outperformed every other nation on worker protections during COVID - I think this speaks to the alignment between the DotP and China’s citizenry.