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today's largest fascistic governance comes from the US and spans almost the entire globe.
leftists shouldn't spread FUD
Term limits are anti-democratic, and are put in place in bourgeois democracy to prevent left-wing leaders from lasting long enough to overhaul the system, effectively gutting any radical change. Mao and Xi are both examples of extremely popular leaders, far moreso than Trump, Macron, Starmer, etc.
Han Chinese are not placed above ethnic minorities in the PRC or non-Chinese externally. The PRC has strong minority representation at the state level, and legal protections for them. The PRC isn't isolationist either, it trades and partners with practically everyone, especially the global south. The US Empire brutally oppresses ethnic minorities, and is dominated by old, white men at the state level. The US Empire is also imperialist, and interventionist, while being extremely nationalist.
The Great Firewall isn't censorship, it's to promote domestic internet production and infrastructure so as to not be reliant on the west. The CPC does censor liberals, capitalists, and fascists, whereas the west censors communists and the working classes.
This is where you highlight how little you understand fascism. The US Empire is driven by private ownership, corporations dominate the state. This is fascism. In the PRC, private property is subservient to the public sector and to the state. The CPC controls what capitalists can do, not the other way around, because the CPC is communist.
Labor isn't suppressed, the PRC restricts independent organizations that can be steered by the west in favor of fully integrating unions into the socialist system itself, in the form of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. Unions in the US Empire are extremely weakened and the state sides with capital over them.
You fundamentally do not know what fascism is because you think it's public ownership.
First part is true. Though it's ironic considering people are calling it fascism for Trump to hint at a third term, while Xi removed constitutional term limits so he could stay in power.
While term limits restrict voter choice, the complete absence of opposition parties restricts it far more. "Popularity" is functionally unmeasurable in a system without free press or competitive elections. You cannot accurately gauge approval ratings when disapproval is criminalized. Removing term limits without adding checks and balances historically leads to autocracy, not "radical change" as it entrenches a specific elite rather than the working class.
The "protectionism" argument fails because the Firewall blocks information, not just competitors. Blocking Wikipedia, news regarding 1989, or criticisms of the leadership has zero economic benefit. It is strictly political thought control.
Conversely, Communist parties are legal in the US. They run candidates and publish newspapers. In China, advocating for independent Marxist unions (like the Jasic Incident student group) gets you arrested. The state suppresses unauthorized leftists just as harshly as liberals.
You are confusing Fascism with Plutocracy or Oligarchy. Fascism, by definition (as articulated by Mussolini and Gentile, or practiced by the Nazis), is the State dominating the corporation, not the other way around. Fascism seeks to merge corporate and state power under the direction of the state to serve national interests. This describes the Chinese model (statist control of capital) far more accurately than the US model (capitalist influence over the state). If the state commands the corporation, that aligns with the structural mechanics of fascism, regardless of whether the state calls itself "Communist."
Trump isn't a fascist for wanting to remove term limits, Trump is a fascist because the US Empire is a genocidal, imperialist settler-colony where private ownership is principle and the state owned by private capital. In the PRC, on the other hand, over 90% of Chinese citizens support the central government, and ranks far higher than western countries on perceptions of democracy:
The firewall is for protectionism. Discussion on June 4th, 1989 happens in China, just not the propagandized version most westerners are taught in school. Instead, political unity in the socialist system is supported. Opposition has historically been supported by western countries to undermine the socialist system, when supposed "leftists" try to separate from the socialist system and agitate against it, these are suppressed just like liberals because they essentially function the same way.
Meanwhile, the US Empire has murdered communists, and funds massive propaganda networks against them. Liberals act far more out in the open in China, for better or worse, than communists in the US.
No, "plutocracy" and "oligarchy" are not what I'm talking about. In Mussolini's economy, private ownership was principle, and capitalists in control of the state. Any capitalists that did not toe the line were punished, sure, by the capitalists in charge od the state. If public ownership is principle, and the working classes are in charge of the state, as in China, then it's socialist.
The idea that socialism is when corporations are independent of and can control the state, your definition, is absurd and stems purely from your incorrect understanding of fascism.
Since people here have seen all this sinophobic propaganda countless times already and thoroughly debunked it all, you're going to go ahead and confidently spew tired, gullible U.S. State Department talking points and lies to be debunked yet again for the umpteenth time because you're either painfully naive and depressingly uneducated or you have an explicit pro-U.S. anti-China agenda you're desperately trying to spread.
Yeah, we know, dronie.
Lol. Lmao even.
I would say "lol, lmao even," but the horrors inflicted on all the non-whites in the US is not a laughing matter.
Sure would be better if it was.
Everything I said is true and you didn't refute any of it. You do realize that, if you have nothing to say, you don't have to post, right?
Trump has been leader for 5 years, and will cease leadership in 3 years. Xi has been in power since 2012 and can be leader for the rest of his life.
Now please explain how US is NOT less isolationist than China. This should be good. 🤣
When you order beef and the waiter brings chicken, you point out the mistake. When the waiter bites your nose, what do you do?
This is a leftist space. Debunking is something done in general forums, when you're trying to inform the audience. No one here is gonna waste their precious time debunking any of that for the 100th time lol
To be fair, this isn't an explicitly leftist space, just a space with a lot of leftists and moderated by them. Clear debunking of anti-communist mythos does have value, as many anti-communists and other liberals do come here.
You imply that it is good to have term limits, despite the fact that it is clearly un-democractic to limit who the people can vote for. If the people like someone and think they should continue their work, they should be allowed to do so. [EDIT:] And if China did have term limits... what would it change? Xi ends his terms and then what? Someone else will simply step up.
I didn't say it wasn't. I said it would be better if it was.
No. I implied that it's not fascistic to have term limits (or less fascistic). I don't think I said anything was good or bad.
You're implying that being un-democratic is a bad thing. The US Constitution is also un-democratic, as it doesn't permit the voting majority to violate the rights of the minority. And I doubt you would consider such mob rule of the majority to be a good thing. Or do you?
Do you think so?
So not allowing the majority to enslave the minority is bad? It's clearly un-democratic.
Well, I'm against slavery. So I guess our preferences just fundamentally differ.
It is not undemocratic to ensure the rights of the people.
And I do not want the enslavement of people.
Westerners can stay mad forever that China won't allow CIA and NED to set up "independent" "labor unions".
the fuck you are talking about.
state directed != fascism, you know that, right?
state directed + corporatism + extreme nationalism + state control of press and labor + lifetime leader
Name a single thing about the US that is more fascistic than China. I'm willing to concede that such a thing might exist.
here's more than a single: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
the fascistic us empire has been raining death suffering and poverty all over the planet for decades. china hasn't been in an active war for decades.
again, the fact that these things are state directed doesn't make it fascist. that's not even what fascism is.