/lit/ - Literature

>>18937936
They are in a lot of trouble.

>>18936250
In Wang Huning's book, there's a funny part where he runs across a Trotskyist table on the street in New York (late 80s), because he notices a copy of the Communist Manifesto along with their literature (btw, it was the SWP). Of course everyone else on the street is ignoring it. And he starts talking to this Trot girl, who doesn't believe China is socialist, which disappoints him. Like, ah man, we just can't get a break. But they agreed that once China rose up to match the U.S., not even surpass it, and after a few more recessions rocked the capitalist world, then it'd be off to the races. I think about that a lot.

>>18936645
Thing is, fascists see a certain kind of mixed system (never well defined anyways) as the end state. But the reforms under Deng Xiaoping were always intended to be transitionary and temporary. That's one difference. Thing is, people here think 30-40 years is a long time. They have thousands of years of history over there and I think the culture thinks about historical time in a different way.

Mao even told Kissinger that he didn't even want Taiwan because there are too many reactionaries there so it'd be better to wait a century, so the U.S. could keep it, and then after enough time had passed, they could settle it between them. But they are going to settle it. I think the mentality is a little different. American politicians think about the next election, and capitalists think about the next quarter.

>>18940084
Well I dunno. I think Western socialists have a lot of confused ideas at the moment, but the American working class will be majority non-white pretty soon. This decade since the boomer population is about to fall of a cliff. White master race ideology will meet resistance. And on the other hand, I don't think the conditions of today are anything like Weimar Germany. People are much more atomized, so even an attempt to create some white-race socialism runs into the problem that there aren't enormous housing projects full of white working-class men who get to work on foot or trolley-car (like in 1920s Germany) in the U.S.

Or Proud Boys? Antifa? It's absolutely nothing like the 1920s. Political violence then was on a completely different scale and it was deadly and it was real. They were just coming out of World War I which absolutely shattered their whole fucking world. But communists in Western countries have similar problems organizing people. The best move communists could probably make is to all get jobs at Amazon.

>>18943217
>Marxism is a playbook for overthrowing an existing power structure and inserting yourself in its place.
Stop. You're gonna make it sound attractive...