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Fight decades of misinformation on China with official Chinese sources.

  • A helpful reminder about dialectics, transition, and economic modes of production.

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  • Here's another way to put it, a child might think parents are "communist" because they give food and shelter whenever needed, but how do the parents afford this food and shelter, by honest labour or by pillaging? You cannot single out a sector of the economy and label it something so antithetical to its relation within the overall economy.

  • A helpful reminder about dialectics, transition, and economic modes of production.

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  • So in the example of a "communist sector" such as healthcare in the UK, who produces the medicine and equipment, who funds the research and personnel, who builds the pharmacies and clinics/hospitals?

  • Talked with a member of the or the Chinese Communist Youth Party

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  • I think you might be referring to the Communist Youth League (CYL) of China.

  • Liberals in the comment section mald on an out-of-context unanimous vote done by the CPC

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  • The various live broadcasts on YouTube seem to use the same feed, presumably from CCTV. Here's a more complete version without any watermarks, it includes the opening and a few more minutes of reading the draft resolutions: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZUreJ8ntTxo

  • Liberals in the comment section mald on an out-of-context unanimous vote done by the CPC

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  • See my comment for a YouTube link. All of the congresses since the founding of the PRC are filmed and archived somewhere. Here's a clip from 1954 of the First Session of the First National's People Congress: https://v.ifeng.com/c/8EIUfKqdeBN, and another from 1956 of the 8th CPC National Congress: https://mil.ifeng.com/c/8C3H2giE3AC.

    Original 12-min colour footage of the founding ceremony of the PRC on Oct 1, 1949: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1DJ411u71f/. This was released by the National Archives Administration in 2019 for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the PRC.

  • Liberals in the comment section mald on an out-of-context unanimous vote done by the CPC

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  • This short clip is from a live broadcast of the closing session of the 20th CPC National Congress on Oct 22, 2022, and I think the exact video is this one on YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UXm9C2ZGri4, note that the camera angles are exactly the same starting from around 49:40 to 50:40. This particular vote is on a resolution on an amendment to the CPC Constitution, and the draft resolution is read before the vote.

    The 20th CPC National Congress was held on Oct 16 to Oct 22, 2022, the drafts of various resolutions were given to the various delegations to discuss on Oct 18.

  • Liberals in the comment section mald on an out-of-context unanimous vote done by the CPC

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  • The National People's Congress (NPC) of the PRC is not the same as the National Congress of the CPC, this video is about the 20th CPC National Congress. The NPC is the highest state organ of power and exercises the legislative power of the state.

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    Address by Xi Jinping At the Conference Marking the 70th Anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence

    www.mfa.gov.cn /eng/zxxx_662805/202406/t20240628_11443839.html

  • China hands rare death sentence to ex-banker who took US$151 million in bribes

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  • Additional context to answer some of the questions here: His superior Lai Xiaomin:

    • investigated in April 2018
    • arrested in Nov 2018
    • prosecuted in Feb 2019
    • first court trial in Oct 2020
    • sentenced to death on Jan 5, 2021
    • appeal rejected, verdict maintained on Jan 21, 2021
    • executed on Jan 29, 2021
    • corruption activities were between 2008 and 2018

    As for Bai Tianhui:

    • arrested in Jan 2019
    • first court trial, sentenced to death, on May 28, 2024
    • corruption activities were between 2014 and 2018

    So the jig was up when Lai was investigated in 2018, Bai was already doomed from that point on.

  • China hands rare death sentence to ex-banker who took US$151 million in bribes

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  • If there's a reprieve it would be explicitly stated, none in this case.

  • Already Free

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  • @Vampire@hexbear.net: I'd like to recommend the whitepaper published by the State Council Information Office of China in 2021, "Tibet Since 1951: Liberation, Development and Prosperity": http://www.news.cn/english/2021-05/21/c_139959978.htm

    It's a long read but most of the questions brought up in your comments here can be found in the first 3 sections. Maybe it will clear up some of the inaccurate presentation of history like "Tibet was separate from China before 1720", "Then it was independent 1912-1950". Feel free to question the Chinese government if you believe that certain facts presented in the whitepaper are wrong, and bring your relevant authoritative sources to refute them.

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    "Freedom of Speech" in the United States：Truth and Facts

    www.fmprc.gov.cn /eng/wjbxw/202403/t20240314_11260689.html
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    Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi answers questions about China’s foreign policy and external relations

    www.fmprc.gov.cn /eng/wjb_663304/wjbz_663308/activities_663312/202403/t20240307_11255682.html
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    (Video) 200 years of Monroe Doctrine: Evolution of U.S. dominance in Latin America

    english.news.cn /20240119/85af9f313f38477b9e1fe5f1ee80fee7/c.html
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    Suggestions for new /c/China icon and banner

  • Request to mod /c/China

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  • Thank you.

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    Request to mod /c/China

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  • Communist newspapers and a concerning development

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  • From The Militant's about page: https://themilitant.com/about/

    It fought the Stalinist counterrevolution in the Soviet Union

    Their latest issue (Vol. 88/No. 1) has an article which says: Defend Israel’s right to exist! Fighting Jew-hatred is union question. Israel battles to stop new Hamas pogroms https://themilitant.com/2023/12/23/defend-israels-right-to-exist-fighting-jew-hatred-is-union-question/

    They certainly don’t ask about Hamas’ brutal dictatorship since taking over Gaza in 2006 and its arrest, torture and assassination of political opponents, crushing of union struggles and oppression of women.

    They list articles about their position here: Defend Israel’s right to exist as haven for Jews! Condemn Jew-hating pogrom! Call for cease-fire is support for Hamas (The record of the 'Militant' and the Socialist Workers Party) https://themilitant.com/2023/11/25/defend-israels-right-to-exist-call-for-cease-fire-is-support-for-hamas-2/

    The list includes this bizarre statement from the Socialist Workers Party, which seems counter to reality: Defend Israel’s right to exist as refuge for Jews! Oppose US rulers’ moves to force Israel to give up battle to defeat Hamas. Fight against Jew-hatred! https://themilitant.com/2023/12/02/defend-israels-right-to-exist-as-refuge-for-jewsoppose-us-rulers-moves-to-force-israel-to-give-up-battle-to-defeat-hamasfight-against-jew-hatred/

    The U.S. imperialist rulers do not share the inescapable situation of Israeli capitalist rulers, much less Israeli working people, who must crush Hamas if their country is to continue to exist as a refuge for Jews.

    London, Paris and the other democratic imperialist powers act for their capitalist rulers’ interests too, as do Beijing and Moscow. But they are much weaker than Washington. In the eyes of all these predators, the peoples of the region are bargaining chips. Workers cannot rely on these capitalist powers to protect Jews from the assaults of Tehran and Hamas, any more than to safeguard the interests of the working class.

    Washington is part of a growing chorus pressing Israel to back off its efforts to eliminate Hamas as a military and terrorist threat to the Jewish people and accept a cease-fire, sure to be violated with new brutality.

    There is a daily barrage in the liberal media about deplorable conditions in Gaza, with no explanation that this is exactly what Hamas long planned and intended in carrying out the Oct. 7 bloodbath. This coverage is aimed at ramping up pressure on Israel to end its efforts to destroy Hamas and yield to the imperialist-dominated United Nations. U.N. bodies are among Hamas’ most prominent cheerleaders.

    Basically they

    • are against Jew-hatred
    • defend the right of Israel to exist
    • view Hamas as anti-Palestinian
    • parrot the US's pro-Israel talking points while claiming that the US is pro-Hamas
    • lump China with other "democratic imperialist powers"
    • ignore how the US vetos UN Security Council resolutions that call for cease-fires.

    As for how they ended up in this pro-Israel position, it's not uncommon to find the position of a party changing over time, maybe you could find something if you look through their history, but I would say that it's a waste of time to analyze this paper, opinions are a dime a dozen, lousy opinions more so.

  • 05/01/2024

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  • I think you may have misremembered what Marx said because this is in the preface of the Communist Manifesto: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/preface.htm

    that this struggle, however, has now reached a stage where the exploited and oppressed class (the proletariat) can no longer emancipate itself from the class which exploits and oppresses it (the bourgeoisie), without at the same time forever freeing the whole of society from exploitation, oppression, class struggles

    This means you have to liberate others before liberating yourself.

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    CPC Central Committee holds symposium commemorating 130th anniversary of Mao's birth

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    10th anniversary of national memorial day for Nanjing Massacre victims

    news.cgtn.com /news/2023-12-12/Live-State-commemoration-for-Nanjing-Massacre-victims-1ptKzCq4ZLG/index.html

  • Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same

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  • There's a scifi TV series called Severance where memories at work and memories of personal life can be severed, I won't spoil the story but this news of writing code in their sleep sounds just like that.

  • I'm really embarrassed being a communist and not knowing a second language.

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  • I think Marxism is not mainly about how much you know, but more about putting what you know into practice to help the oppressed class.

    Remember when it was only rich people who could afford the time and money for decent education, or any education at all (still applies in some areas of the world)? What did most of those people do with all their knowledge? Sure some of them furthered the wealth of human knowledge, by just being the only people who could afford to be in that position.

    I suggest reading this short essay by Karl Marx: Reflections of a Young Man on The Choice of a Profession. It is about choosing a profession but really you can apply it to choosing what to learn or do.

    Some quotes:

    Those professions which are not so much involved in life itself as concerned with abstract truths are the most dangerous for the young man whose principles are not yet firm and whose convictions are not yet strong and unshakeable. At the same time these professions may seem to be the most exalted if they have taken deep root in our hearts and if we are capable of sacrificing our lives and all endeavours for the ideas which prevail in them.

    But the chief guide which must direct us in the choice of a profession is the welfare of mankind and our own perfection. It should not be thought that these two interests could be in conflict, that one would have to destroy the other; on the contrary, man's nature is so constituted that he can attain his own perfection only by working for the perfection, for the good, of his fellow men.

    If he works only for himself, he may perhaps become a famous man of learning, a great sage, an excellent poet, but he can never be a perfect, truly great man.

    History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy; religion itself teaches us that the ideal being whom all strive to copy sacrificed himself for the sake of mankind, and who would dare to set at nought such judgments?

    If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.

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  • Suicide can have revolutionary forms, when revolutionaries do so in dire situations to avoid being captured and interrogated for intel. But suicide can also be a cover story for murder, or an abrupt end to the narration of your own story, or an easy way out.

    There is no revolutionary act in suicide by someone who says "long live the revolution" and then chooses to end their life under no immediate threat. I will not call you selfish, but hypocritical. Mental illness is not an excuse to pretend to be revolutionary.

    Just yesterday I watched the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Para Games, but I do not want to start comparing which disabilities are worse than others. Physical and mental disabilities are not something you can just wish away, that is why fighting to live, and trying to live a colourful life is more of a revolutionary act than suicide, because you can prove that your disabilities don't diminish your being.

    The bourgeoisie will be glad to hear of potential revolutionaries killing themselves, one less person to worry about, but as fellow comrades, it is us who will share the burden of a loss life.

    We cannot just dismiss an intentional suicide by saying "if that's what they really wanted".

    Marxists want to change the world into a better place for the masses, not end their own life as some sort of "revolutionary act", that would be a death cult. If you can justify ending your own life, imagine how easy it is for the bourgeoisie to justify killing all the impoverished and ill.

    To live is not just a biological instinct, it is also to defy those who wish you dead!

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    "Two-state solution"

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    Harvard student groups issued an anti-Israel statement. CEOs want them blacklisted

    www.cnn.com /2023/10/11/business/harvard-israel-hamas-ceos-students/index.html
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    Australian deported after serving sentence for illegally providing Chinese State security secrets abroad

    global.chinadaily.com.cn /a/202310/11/WS65265662a31090682a5e7f02.html
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  • I'm not sure about the immigration process in any of the countries you mentioned, but I think you do need to come up with a good reason other than just being communist, how would the immigration office even vet your claims? Even if it sounds like your education experience doesn't look good, there's still your work experience to consider.

    How did you "message the Chinese government" anyway, through their embassies or something? There are less than a million foreigners living in China according to the 2020 census: http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202105/t20210510_1817193.html

    IV. Purposes of Staying in Chinese Mainland

    Of the above population, 77008 persons came for business, 444336 persons came for employment, 219761 persons came for study, 419517 persons came for settlement, 74735 persons came to visit relatives, and 195338 persons came for other purposes.

  • Russia has one thing that it fumbled under the communist rule, and I hate it.(low quality post)

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  • I hope you're not visiting from America, because it sounds like typical US rhetoric when you say "letting a guy [rule] for 20+ years", and comparing it to dogshit American elections.