How do you know?

Yeah that tracks, same with Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Being aware of America’s abuses of power is good. Being contrarian and acting like everything they’ve ever said about China is a lie is bad.

The PRC has a Socialist Market Economy

No they don’t, they have a capitalist economy. Absolutely nothing about China is socialist. You are eating up and regurgitating their propaganda without question.

Advocacy for Socialism isn’t necessarily based in mystical properties of participating in a collectivized structure, but more of a materialist question of efficiency.

This is more of that vague word salad I referred to earlier. You didn’t say anything here. “mystical properties of participating in a collectivized structure”, “materialist question of efficiency”, these phrases don’t mean anything. You’re just stringing polysyllabic words together to sound smart.

They democratized the economy,

They had absolutely no democracy.

ended famine in a country where that was regular

They deliberately caused famine.

dramatically lowered wealth inequality while maintaining high economic growth

They were ended by the very corruption and wealth inequality you claim they lowered.

defeated the Nazis,

With the help of capitalist empires.

proved that a publicly driven and planned economy works well

It did not work well.

provided free and high quality healthcare and education

We do that in Canada, too.

The USian fear of countries that went against the US Empire’s dominance and provided an alternative to it based in Red Scare propaganda is a problem that must be confronted, not thrown under the bed and avoided.

Yet you dismiss everything bad ever said about the USSR as “Red Scare propaganda” to conveniently throw it under the bed and avoid it.

As for the PRC and Canada, this is much the opposite. The PRC has a Socialist Market Economy driven by Marxist economics.

China has banks. Stock markets. Billionaires. Absolutely nothing about their economy is socialist or is driven by marxism.

You can’t back these statements up with any evidence. You just make bold proclamations and assert them as true because you said they were, and if anyone doubts you they just have to “read theory”.

Large firms and key industries like banking and steel are overwhelmingly in public ownership and control, while the private sector is overwhelmingly populated by self-employed people, cooperatives, and small businesses.

None of what you just said here is true.

If you write without reading and learning from your predecessors, you’ll repeat their mistakes and fail to replicate their successes.

Yes, but unfortunately you have dismissed everything you have read as “Red Scare propaganda”, or likely “Yellow fever propaganda”.

I think we should absolutely be learning from Lenin and the USSR.

Learning from their mistakes. Not emulating a failed brutal authoritarian dictatorship.

I don’t see what is “backfiring,”

Americans fear the word “socialism” because they associate it with brutal authoritarian dictatorships. Your love of Lenin and the USSR isn’t helping with that.

The PRC learned from what succeeded and what failed in the Soviet Union, and is currently overtaking everyone else.

The only thing the PRC learned was to abandon socialism. Canada is more socialist than the PRC.

You keep linking books to read. I think we’ve read enough. It’s time to start writing.

A worker cooperative in an economy dominated by private Capital is not an instance of Socialism, as it depends on the broader Capitalist system.

I’ve already addressed how this absolutism doesn’t track with logic, I just hope people stop repeating it so we can get some actual socialism in this world.

I don’t think we should be emulating Lenin or the USSR. I think that’s what is backfiring.

“Read theory” is how they trick us, forcing us into dogmatic religious-like application of historical texts.

Why don’t we write theory? Marx and Lenin weren’t gods. They got things wrong.

Lisa’s only mistake was saying yes.

Just do every single thing in socialism, but change every single word. Call it Americanism.

Proletariat? No, just “worker”.

Bourgeoisie? No, just “elites”.

Capital? “Stuff”. Like how in baseball they say a pitcher’s got good “stuff”. Use your human stuff.

Class Consciousness - “common sense”.

Dialectical Materialism - Idk I’m still trying to figure out wtf that one means.

Which is surprising because up here in Canada, the socialism started with the farmers. And it’s still going on with coop feed and grain silos and harvester sharing. Farmers don’t let other farmers starve, in Canada.