/lit/ - Literature

>>16656758
Well to start off realize that Marx infact wrote very little about communism, most of his work is a thorough criticism of capitalism. What better way is there to criticize capitalism then through a materialistic empirical lens, idealism/mysticism/metaphysics whatever is just circlejerking. Labour theory of value is valuable because it puts human labour, our relationship to this whole socioeconomic system, at the front of our analysis of the whole system.

I'm actually completely Dengpilled. Before I understood Marxism, but thought simple reform ala Sweden would be enough, how wrong I was.
I can't believe I never understood the genius of Deng Xiaoping thought, which was continued and expanded through with the Three Represents theory, and is now concluding in Xi Jinping thought. I've now read Deng and Jiang's collected works twice each, and the Governance of China more than I can count.
Before this I'd read Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, Luxemburg and some other Marxist theorists but they just didn't seem right. Something too childish about completely tearing down capitalism and replacing it with an entirely new mode of production, despite my agreement with the Marxian view of history. Marxism seemed to me to be more about destroying the old than building the new. This delusion ended when I read Deng. Through Socialism with Chinese characteristics, China has eradicated poverty, homelessness and illiteracy. The capitalists are represented through the party to keep them from being compradors, and are kept in line, with Xi Jinping thought now nationalizing and controlling the private rapidly. The genius of Deng's theory is keeping the dictatorship of the workers while also using the benefits of global capitalism to build the revolution.
America's fate was sealed when Deng inherited a broken China and built it into a superpower.
LONG LIVE DENG XIAOPING THOUGHT! LONG LIVE CHINA!