1.Those parties are subservient to the CCP and officially cannot form opposition to it, reducing their role to merely advisory. It is similar to how the US system is described as “two-party” despite there being some other parties that influence next to nothing (and even then, they are allowed to be in opposition to the Dems and Reps)
3.I have hard time believing that, but discussing it is a thing in itself.
That isn’t the same thing, it would be closer to having Super-PACS as parties than controlled opposition. The US is an elaborate illusion of choice, the actual levers of change are easier to access in China.
If you question it, try asking Chinese people what they think, and read Marx’s position on the press.
If you’d like, I can offer suggestions on readings from Marx and Engels that supports this.
I’d recommend Principles of Communism (specifically question 17, though the whole pamphlet is tremendously useful) as well as Socialism: Utopian and Scientific from Engels if you haven’t engaged with Marxist theory before. S:UaS does a great job of elaborating on Historical and Dialectical Materialism in a short form-factor, elaborating on the why of Communism to begin with, essentially working with analysis of present systems and predicting forwards, as opposed to coming up with a “utopia” and working backwards.
If you want a Marxist analysis of Capitalism and why it will prepare the foundations for Communism, I recommend Wage Labor and Capital as well as Wages, Price, and Profit if you want the short version and don’t want to read Capital.
1.Those parties are subservient to the CCP and officially cannot form opposition to it, reducing their role to merely advisory. It is similar to how the US system is described as “two-party” despite there being some other parties that influence next to nothing (and even then, they are allowed to be in opposition to the Dems and Reps)
3.I have hard time believing that, but discussing it is a thing in itself.
4.I see where you’re going with it.
That isn’t the same thing, it would be closer to having Super-PACS as parties than controlled opposition. The US is an elaborate illusion of choice, the actual levers of change are easier to access in China.
If you question it, try asking Chinese people what they think, and read Marx’s position on the press.
If you’d like, I can offer suggestions on readings from Marx and Engels that supports this.
I always welcome the suggestions
I’d recommend Principles of Communism (specifically question 17, though the whole pamphlet is tremendously useful) as well as Socialism: Utopian and Scientific from Engels if you haven’t engaged with Marxist theory before. S:UaS does a great job of elaborating on Historical and Dialectical Materialism in a short form-factor, elaborating on the why of Communism to begin with, essentially working with analysis of present systems and predicting forwards, as opposed to coming up with a “utopia” and working backwards.
If you want a Marxist analysis of Capitalism and why it will prepare the foundations for Communism, I recommend Wage Labor and Capital as well as Wages, Price, and Profit if you want the short version and don’t want to read Capital.
I also have a beginner Marxist-Leninist reading list I curated for easy sharing.
Thanks!
No problem!