/lit/ - Literature

>>18045457
I think this is where Lenin comes in. Engels was pointing to this later on but the idea is that capitalism develops into an imperialist stage and the proceeds allows the ruling class to "buy off" their workers which creates a "labor aristocracy." The U.S. for example today is like the financial center of a global empire. Why would people tear that up for a revolution? That said, there are serious contradictions embedded in this empire, the productive economy has been hollowed out and outsourced -- most of your proletarians today don't even live in the western countries.

That said, there was a wave of communist revolutions in the 20th century that took over half the world, that was a pretty big deal, and the ruling party of the largest country today -- and perhaps the single most powerful political organization anywhere in the world -- is a Marxist-Leninist party and I would argue operates with a Marxist theory of history and method of political analysis.

A lot of people don't agree with that, but I think that's true.

https://youtu.be/U1qCtjbnj3E

>>18045461
I mostly agree with this especially about being more authentically Marxist but I wouldn't say this American "social liberal vs. social conservative" dynamic translates to a Chinese context exactly, at least in the same way. If anything, I would call the Communist Party of China "moderates" on those issues, they tend not to weigh in, and if they do, they tend to do it cautiously. In some way, they are more socially conservative than the U.S., but in other ways less so -- the affirmative action programs there for ethnic minorities are probably the most sweeping in the world and if applied to the U.S. would probably spark a civil war lol

Here's some socialist realism though ;)

https://youtu.be/ojpN6PjRcQc?t=979

>>17998593
http://theory.people.com.cn/n1/2021/0301/c40531-32039586.html

>>17998672
State capitalism was originally a term Lenin used to refer to a transitional state, so it's a neutral term, although the party officially rejects the term for their SWCC label. The more important question IMO is whether they practice dialectical and historical materialism as a method of analysis and practice.

>>17726274 (me)
For me it's like... if you look at this... that says it right there, but it's also like, you might as well cope, right? The world's largest country and the biggest one on the rise has so internalized Marxism that it's fused with the culture itself. A new religion, like Islam.

The past few decades since the USSR fell was just a detour. This is going to last for a thousand years.

It's really habbeding, the Marxists have made peace with the world.

https://youtu.be/UbW8U4VfgTM