• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago

    The state is an extension of the ruling class, it isn’t an independent entity. Ownership of the state is largely determined by which aspect is principle, private ownership, public ownership, etc. In China, public, collective ownership is principle, and the communists created a socialist state after overthrowing the nationalists.

    I’m not seeing your point.

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      18 hours ago

      You said “the working class is in control of the state”, and I was looking for some argument to support that. I think Xi is in charge of the state, and I don’t think the working class gets much say in that.

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        11 hours ago

        Xi is at the head of the CPC, but that isn’t in conflict with the working class being in control of the state. The mode of production is the biggest aspect governing which class the state is under the control of. Further, China is comprehensively democratic, moreso than western countries:

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            9 hours ago

            The PRC doesn’t have the same kind of electoralist faux-democracy that capitalist countries have, it has a comprehensive unitary socialist democracy. China’s model is more effective at delivering the results people want, which is why over 90% support the system and the government.

            If your narrow definition of democracy only includes presidential elections, then you’d be wrong about what democracy is. Democracy is rule by the people, and it has many forms beyond what liberals insist is the only valid form.

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        15 hours ago

        Sure. The country that has a communist party large enough to be more populous than all but less than 20 countries is ruled by a single guy with no input from a single fucking other person.

        Grow up.