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Socialism utopian and scientific for reference

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/

If you read Das Kapital you'd understand why you just said nonsense that wasn't really relevant to it

That “lol” is quite unnecessary. There is no need to ridicule me. I would expect better from a mod of a community like this.

I dont need to, but I felt like it. I chose restraint and went with "lol" instead of really getting into how ridiculous and chauvinist of an opinion it is.

I didn’t say that is all fascism is, just that it is a tactic within fascism

You said this: "Murdering your political opponents is a fascist tactic."

my point is just that political violence and murdering your political opponents does not work with democracy

I mean the Soviets murdered the hell out of nazis, so there is a counterexample for you. The cubans also murdered the hell out of high level regime collaborators when batista was overthrown. Another counterexample. I'm not advocating for murder within our political system but like, you're not correct.

It literally isnt: fascism is capitalism in crisis and assassinations have gone on for most of human history, before the development of capitalism in the first place

Lol that minimizes what fascism actually is. Assassinations have happened throughout history, including before Capitalism and before the crisis within Capitalism that created fascism.

Yeah no problem, and I appreciate your perspective on it as a Canadian. 😄

https://www.energymonitor.ai/features/explainer-how-china-is-quietly-becoming-a-renewables-powerhouse/#:~:text=China%20is%20leading%20the%20world%20in%20renewables&text=Wind%20and%20solar%20energy%20are,40%25%20of%20total%20installed%20capacity.

http://english.scio.gov.cn/m/in-depth/2024-03/11/content_117101412.htm#:~:text=The%20concept%20of%20%22whole%2Dprocess,of%20laws%20and%20institutional%20arrangements.

If the party officials are having closed door discussions on who will lead, the mandate of the masses seems obscured, or absent.

Do you mean electeds? The party, which itself has internal democracy, is a seperate institution from the legislatures, which include members of minority parties

Also why do you think it is closed door?

If xi’s popularity took a nose dive, how would the common citizen express their opinion? On what schedule? If the “elected” officials strongly favored keeping xi, but the citizenry strongly favored large leadership change, how would that occur?

If the leadership and people have a disagreement and it isn't resolvable through dialog elected officials can be recalled.

Well, socialist countries operate on concensus for major positions- the idea is that the vote is only part of the democratic process, and a large part of democracy lives in creating constructive feedback cycles between the people and the government and between different levels of government where concerns are understood and addressed.

If there was a competitor for Xi, it would not be part of the voting process, it would be in discussions amongst electeds for who is best for the role, and then a vote would happen where people approve of or disapprove of their representatives choice.

Literally Harvard affiliated studies show immense satisfaction with the government

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/

Have realistic elections been happening?

Yes, have you looked at how elections function in China?

On one hand yes, on the other hand China is a democracy with a dominant marxist leninist party which understands that imperialism is an unstable system and that mutual development is better for the long term stability and prosperity of China because MLs literally wrote the book on understanding imperialism

They've explicitly said "the era of zero sum diplomacy is over"

Temporarily” has a pretty consistent habit of becoming permanent. It’s either malicious or extremely naive on Lenin’s part to believe that ypu can concentrate power into the hands of a few people and then they’ll just voluntarily give it up.

Temporary refers to disenfranchising the former bourgeoisie and nobility, not concentrating power? The USSR had a four tier federated legislative structure with the executive appointed by the legislature.

Which term is Xi on now at this point again? Oh right, he made himself dictator for life…

Yeah, and Castro was also dictator for life /s

I know it is unimaginable to you that leaders can stay popular and maintain a democratic mandate because you live in a bourgeois democracy but come on.

You know that term limits were invented because FDR was too popular right? They are an antidemocratic measure.