I know, what flipped the switch? End Stage Capitalism demands these wars. All that's left of u.s. economic growth is the war machine. I find it funny when Yellen has to emergency fly to Beijing to beg China purchase bills,notes and bonds at the coming auction. DOD has to beg China to manufacture parts for the war machine to use against them/us. I work in science collaboration is the heart of science, even where I work people express the evil of Russia and China even though we have nationals on our experiment. Did Covid alter brain function?
I just took a DOE training exam about evil countries trying to harm our systems. Of course the update is, they labeled, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Meanwhile, the dept. recently de-funded our Dark Matter experiment. Our u.s. members of the collaboration are talking about leaving to another country that is still funding science. To me, when a country chooses war,and genocide over peaceful science that is the end stage of capitalism. Living on Mars is useless, since you would need to live in a bunker deep underground (cosmic radiation) however, that spending over DOD spending let's go for it : )
Hey Society. The simple answer we need to believe that China is evil is because we are told to by the massive propaganda apparatus in our country. And that is being enforced by arrests, de-banking, accusations of being a communist agent, loss of internet access, and so forth. It doesn’t help that we are being dumbed down also. It is becoming dangerous to speak kindly of a country that the Empire has declared an enemy, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, China, Iran and so forth. I myself look at China as a 4000 yr old civilization that has wrought miracles as of late with a population number that is staggering. Rebuilding modern cities, energy efficient, bringing the rural downtrodden into the middle class in a matter of years. I often wonder whether the answers to many of our woes could be more rapidly solved with a benevolent dictator rather than the crushing wheels of our so called democracy. Just think, with one click of the fingers, the entire country goes to alternative green energy in 5-10 years. Just fantasizing, maybe. I certainly appreciate the wonders of this country but our house is on fire and no one knows where the fire extinguishers are.
Mr. Xi is a curious case. He seems to have said in an interview that equality was a terrible thing, and yet he supposedly calls himself a Communist. I'll have to ask him about it next time I see him.
Like every Chinese leader, with the exception of Sun Yat-Sen, Xi is an authoritarian. He may be an authoritarian socialist, but he still believes in a small group of people telling the large majority what to do.
can you still elaborate? they contend to be communists, which would mean they'd espouse something like a 'dictatorship of the proletariat' (less personal).
I mean it's a contradiction in terms. No doubt there have been dictators who thought they were benevolent because they didn't know any better, were victims of circumstance, and so forth, but surely the first task of a benevolent dictator would be to resign the dictator part.
When King Wangchuck of Druk Yul[Bhutan] abdicated the throne and started a democracy the people protested. One said, "they [the legislators] will only look out for themselves."
Heroic myths such as Smith's capitalism often employ the fallacy of the false alternative to produce (and reproduce) themselves. There is no philosophical warrant to respect that process nor any part of it.
Objectively, what you're saying makes no sense. "We must have this dictator, or that" is apparently a choice made collectively by the people; yet nobody wants to be a slave, which is what dictatorship is, and in reason no one should want to be. Why would they? Maybe these communities are under foreign duress, like Syria, Iraq, and Iran, who, as nations and communities, have been under attack for generations, mostly from European and American powers. Being invited to enslave yourself by armed thugs is not really a choice.
It's laughable to me that you accuse China of creating "an authoritarian capitalist system," while remaining blind to the authoritarian capitalist system right here in the good ol' US of A.
I remember to have read a comment somewhere about "seeing the splinter in your neighbors' eye while missing the beam in your own." Maybe you can find it.
Who said China is the source of evil? Everybody knows about the severe Wuhan lockdown. Since at the time no one knew how deadly the disease was it seems to me like it was the prudent thing to do. I thought subsequent lockdowns in other countries tended to me mindless follow the leader.
I'm annoyed when Internet commenters address me as "you." So far their estimations have always been completely wrong. I beg you to abjure this practice.
I don't know what they say but do know enough that it is a mixed system. The main thrust of the Communist revolution was to get rid of landlords. The government owns all the urban land and leases it out, so the profits from rising land costs go to the government. There is still rental going on but landlords wield much less power than they did in the old days. I think the banks are nationalized so the government gets all profits but am not sure about that.
The United States is also a mixed system, with Social Security being the most socialistic aspect.
Why do you need to believe that China is the source of evil?
I know, what flipped the switch? End Stage Capitalism demands these wars. All that's left of u.s. economic growth is the war machine. I find it funny when Yellen has to emergency fly to Beijing to beg China purchase bills,notes and bonds at the coming auction. DOD has to beg China to manufacture parts for the war machine to use against them/us. I work in science collaboration is the heart of science, even where I work people express the evil of Russia and China even though we have nationals on our experiment. Did Covid alter brain function?
This comment and post has aged well.
I just took a DOE training exam about evil countries trying to harm our systems. Of course the update is, they labeled, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Meanwhile, the dept. recently de-funded our Dark Matter experiment. Our u.s. members of the collaboration are talking about leaving to another country that is still funding science. To me, when a country chooses war,and genocide over peaceful science that is the end stage of capitalism. Living on Mars is useless, since you would need to live in a bunker deep underground (cosmic radiation) however, that spending over DOD spending let's go for it : )
Hey Society. The simple answer we need to believe that China is evil is because we are told to by the massive propaganda apparatus in our country. And that is being enforced by arrests, de-banking, accusations of being a communist agent, loss of internet access, and so forth. It doesn’t help that we are being dumbed down also. It is becoming dangerous to speak kindly of a country that the Empire has declared an enemy, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, China, Iran and so forth. I myself look at China as a 4000 yr old civilization that has wrought miracles as of late with a population number that is staggering. Rebuilding modern cities, energy efficient, bringing the rural downtrodden into the middle class in a matter of years. I often wonder whether the answers to many of our woes could be more rapidly solved with a benevolent dictator rather than the crushing wheels of our so called democracy. Just think, with one click of the fingers, the entire country goes to alternative green energy in 5-10 years. Just fantasizing, maybe. I certainly appreciate the wonders of this country but our house is on fire and no one knows where the fire extinguishers are.
"Benevolent dictator" is pretty much an oxymoron.
Yes the words do not belong together, but Xi comes close.
Mr. Xi is a curious case. He seems to have said in an interview that equality was a terrible thing, and yet he supposedly calls himself a Communist. I'll have to ask him about it next time I see him.
Like every Chinese leader, with the exception of Sun Yat-Sen, Xi is an authoritarian. He may be an authoritarian socialist, but he still believes in a small group of people telling the large majority what to do.
Confucian?
why do you think xi is (or comes close to) a dictator?
He heads a one party authoritarian government and maybe is president for life. Close.
can you still elaborate? they contend to be communists, which would mean they'd espouse something like a 'dictatorship of the proletariat' (less personal).
And why is it necessarily negative? Why does "dictator" carry a negative connotation?
I mean it's a contradiction in terms. No doubt there have been dictators who thought they were benevolent because they didn't know any better, were victims of circumstance, and so forth, but surely the first task of a benevolent dictator would be to resign the dictator part.
When King Wangchuck of Druk Yul[Bhutan] abdicated the throne and started a democracy the people protested. One said, "they [the legislators] will only look out for themselves."
I could go on...
Heroic myths such as Smith's capitalism often employ the fallacy of the false alternative to produce (and reproduce) themselves. There is no philosophical warrant to respect that process nor any part of it.
Objectively, what you're saying makes no sense. "We must have this dictator, or that" is apparently a choice made collectively by the people; yet nobody wants to be a slave, which is what dictatorship is, and in reason no one should want to be. Why would they? Maybe these communities are under foreign duress, like Syria, Iraq, and Iran, who, as nations and communities, have been under attack for generations, mostly from European and American powers. Being invited to enslave yourself by armed thugs is not really a choice.
It's laughable to me that you accuse China of creating "an authoritarian capitalist system," while remaining blind to the authoritarian capitalist system right here in the good ol' US of A.
I remember to have read a comment somewhere about "seeing the splinter in your neighbors' eye while missing the beam in your own." Maybe you can find it.
Who said China is the source of evil? Everybody knows about the severe Wuhan lockdown. Since at the time no one knew how deadly the disease was it seems to me like it was the prudent thing to do. I thought subsequent lockdowns in other countries tended to me mindless follow the leader.
I'm annoyed when Internet commenters address me as "you." So far their estimations have always been completely wrong. I beg you to abjure this practice.
Yes, when people tell me what I think, feel, or believe, it really p!sses me off too.
Not worth the effort
The ruling party in China is Communist. The economy has tended towards a capitalist system. You figure it out.
what does the cpc say about this contradiction?
I don't know what they say but do know enough that it is a mixed system. The main thrust of the Communist revolution was to get rid of landlords. The government owns all the urban land and leases it out, so the profits from rising land costs go to the government. There is still rental going on but landlords wield much less power than they did in the old days. I think the banks are nationalized so the government gets all profits but am not sure about that.
The United States is also a mixed system, with Social Security being the most socialistic aspect.