With China’s popularity rising, there has to come a point where a country’s population decides to say:
“We need to follow a Marxist-Leninist model pronto if we want to remain a functioning society, because capitalism isn’t working anymore.”
Which country is gonna say it first?
My guess goes to..
Pakistan
not at all. i’m not a social democrat, and “social democracy” is not what any of the AES countries are.
OK so capitalism and free markets are necessary. You need to have and dominate capitalism to end it. What’s the intermediate governing principle? Communism? That’s kind of a paradox, as we can’t have communism within capitalism, or can we?
As I see it, China looks a lot like a one-party democratic socialist republic using capitalism to exert soft power. I might be wrong though.
Or are you talking about other countries which want to establish communism?
the intermediate governing principle is socialism. using it to keep the (global) rich down while we transition away from capitalism, into communism. though this is just the path china choose to walk: play along with global capitalism to develop their industry, yes.
though despite all that went wrong, lenin later showed us that you can indeed skip straight to socialism without capitalism or free markets and have it be even more advanced than what we have now in china.
a new communist revolution would look totally different in 2026, and would take a different character depending on which country it’s happening on because it’s more about people choosing their own path instead of having the empire dictate the washington consensus to them. this is the main thing but is what makes socialism the most difficult to understand by westerners who haven’t lived imperialism.
thank you for the thorough explanations and your patience.
Can you explain the difference between socialism and democratic socialism? I’m kinda confused. The rest makes sense now.
Lots of things to google, tyvm again
democratic socialism is trying to achieve regular socialism through getting elected and slowly reforming capitalism away through the established capitalist methods laws and institutions, no need to spill blood for a revolution or physically take control away from capitalists.
my continent had a 20 year demsoc wave and all they managed to do was some poverty alleviation within capitalism. capital has a way to buy their way into lobbying and influencing everything and if you don’t take it’s control down straight up it’s always finding a way to pop back up again.
vote for them if you are in the circumstance to have that choice, but know the most they will really do is buy you time with the un-worsened status quo. historically, organizing for the abolition of capitalism tends to be a less unsuccessful method of moving things forward.