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
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.