I mean… I kinda get it, but nowadays it’s starting to get absurd.

(EDIT: This was supposed to be a “blow air out my nose and get on with my life” meme…)

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    1 day ago

    China considers themselves socialist because they equivocate the people with the state.

    Isn’t that kinda the line between socialism and communism? That communism has no state, but that a socialist state can act as a sort of intermediary.

    Not that it’s the only socialist model, mind you; a market economy composed entirely of individual private worker co-ops is another model, for example. Then there’s the issue of implementation, whether the people actually democratically control the government.

    But ideologically, while not communist, I don’t see how that structure can’t be considered socialist.

    • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
      1·
      4 hours ago

      But ideologically, while not communist, I don’t see how that structure can’t be considered socialist.

      It’s not that it can’t be, I just personally don’t consider a state socialist unless it is a functioning democracy that enacts what is at least an approximation of the will of the workers. It becomes obvious this is not the case when a state is hostile towards workers who attempt to organize.