But Venables’s postscript changes all that. Venables is the Buddicoms’ first cousin, and was left the copyright to Eric & Us, as well as 57 crates of family letters. From these she made the shocking discovery that, in 1921, Eric had tried to rape Jacintha. Previously the young couple had kissed, but now, during a late summer walk, he had wanted more. At only five feet to his six feet and four inches, Jacintha had shouted, screamed and kicked before running home with a torn skirt and bruised hip. It was “this” rather than any gradual parting of the ways that explains why Jacintha broke off all contact with her childhood friend, never to learn that he had transformed himself into George Orwell.

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Workers in the PRC absolutely have the right to strike, there are hundreds of cases a year.

Use audiobookshelf for audiobooks.

I agree that the “principle aspect” as you say, or which class is holding power and ultimately controls both the economy and the political system, is most important. I’d argue though that the primary difference in these sectors is who is in control of the surplus, and whose benefit it goes to. In the PRC and even in Cuba, there are still private capitalists who effectively control the surplus generated within those companies, and use it as they see fit. They’re severely limited of course, but they still function differently from the socialist sector whose surplus is worker-controlled via 5 year plans.

The only “socialist industry” I can think of in western countries, outside of tiny examples like coops, are things like state-run natural resource and energy companies. The US military is just the enforcement arm of capital, planned and controlled by capital. Even state-run social services shouldn’t really be thought of as socialist, since they produce no surplus value, and are funded via other ways, and are overall capitalist-planned.

Who told you that NK “sucks”, and why do you trust them?

Definitely, people in western countries rarely leave their bubble of the 5 or so anti-communist media companies that control everything they see.

Definitely, that’s one of the best things about the PRC.

Workers rights

• The real wage (IE the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. This is staggering considering it’s the most populous country on the planet. The US real wage by comparison is lower in 2019 than it was in 1973.
• Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
• US Life expectancy peaked in 2015, is on the decline, and is now lower than in China. 2
  • How healthcare works in China (refuting a fearmongering NYT video about health care in China).
  • Uninsured Chinese citizens pay an average of $5-7 to see a specialist (the majority of hospital visits ), and with insurance, its free. 95% of Chinese citizens have insurance
• Wages themselves are forced to rise in the private sector by the CPC (+16% every years, +400% since 1980) who force the capitalists to accept the presence of CPC chapters who represent the interest of the workers, increasing workers control even in the capitalist parts of the economy.
• Eliminated Urban Poverty. On track to eliminate all poverty within a decade.
• CGTN documentary - China’s war on poverty
• Trade union laws of the PRC.
• The west views China as one big sweatshop, but the actual working hours aren’t much more than anywhere else. The average for a migrant worker (most vulnerable to exploitation as they are traveling from the countryside) is 8.8 hours, little under an hour more than a typical working day. Labor strikes are rarely suppressed, and usually get the support of the PRC.
• The workplace safety standards of China are better than in the capitalist countries of the West like in Australia who have an higher rate of work related death despite having a GDP per capita 3-5 times higher.
• /u/cheezicle - My experience as a factory worker in a Chinese “sweatshop”
• 70% of Chinese millenials own their own home, and 91% as of 2021 plan to buy their own home within the next 5 years.
• In a typical example of proletarian police accountability, the CPC sentences a police officer to death for killing a pregnant woman in a restaurant in southern China.
• The US is losing to China: “Washington is actually far more corrupt than Beijing. If you want to get something done in Washington, you do what you do in Jakarta: just slip some money to the right people.”

You also have major DPRK brainworms. Here’s some resources to learn:

On North Korea / the DPRK

• Is north korea a totalitarian dictatorship? Are they all really required to get the same haircut? A short documentary.
• South Korea boosts reward for defectors to $860k USD.
• Are north korean defectors really paid to lie by the south? A short documentary.
• What is everyday life like? A conversation with a North Korean Citizen.

Wrong. The PRC is a mixed economy, where the socialist, publicly planned sector predominates, and a smaller capitalist sector.

The DPRK is similar but has effectively no capitalist sector.

Is China State Capitalist?

• The backbone of the economy is state ownership and socialist planning. 24 / 25 of the top revenue companies are state-owned and planned. 70% of the top 500 companies are State-owned. 1, 2 The largest bank, construction, electricity, and energy companies in the world, are CPC controlled entities, subject to the 5 year plans laid out by the central committee.
• Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
• Is modern day china communist? Is it staying true to communist values?
• Didn’t China go Capitalist with Deng Xiaoping? Didn’t it liberalize its economy? Is China’s drastic decrease in poverty a result of the increase in free market capitalist policies?
• Is the CPC committed to communism?
• The Long Game and Its Contradictions. Audiobook
• The myth of Chinese state capitalism. Did Deng really betray Chinese socialism?
• Tsinghua University- Is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics real socialism, or is it state Capitalism?
• Isn’t China revisionist for having a capitalist sector of the economy, and working with capitalists? Why isn’t it fully planned like the USSR was?
• Castro on why both China and Vietnam are socialist countries.
• Roderic Day - China has billionaires.
• What is socialism with Chinese characteristics (SWCC)?
• How is SWCC not revisionist? How is it any different from Gorbachev’s market reforms?, 2
• Domenico Losurdo - is China state capitalist?, 2
• Did Lenin say anything about Market Socialism, or productivism?
• Vijay Prashad - Is China capitalist?
• Why do Chinese billionaires keep ending up in prison? Why are many billionaires and CEOs going missing? China sentences Ex-Chairman of a major bank, guilty of embezzling ~$100M USD, to death in 2019.

I regret to inform everyone that the white supremacists are at it again.

Shout out to both @nutomic for working on Ibis, a federated wiki alternative, and Prolewiki, the pro-worker-wiki.

Yes, the wmf has so many problems, especially its bloated administration. Also it’s run by US government regime-change agents like Katherine Maher, who steer the site to pro-US viewpoints.

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia

🙏Inshallah🙏

One other thing I wanted to add: Bourgeios democracy / parliamentarism as a form of government is historically far more brutal than even fascist regimes. The UK and US genocided entire continents and killed millions of people under this form of “democracy”.

The empire of the rising sun, the nazis, and Italian fascists only tried and failed to do what the UK and US had already acheived, under a far more stable form of government for capitalist-imperialism.

That’s the true alleviation of suffering, by eliminating it’s root cause: capitalist domination.

Anything else is just prolonging the symptoms.

Slower is not a good thing here. US democrats have been in general more competent managers of the US empire, care more about its image internationally, and think more long term.

The fall of the US empire (especially the closing of its 900+ military bases internationally) would bring the greatest benefit to the world, and help resolve one of the greatest contradictions in the world today: inequality between rich and poor countries.

Nope, there is another alternative: revolution and working class power. Many countries went through this extremely difficult struggle to liberate themselves from capitalist/imperialist domination.

Not really true. Since voting in a capitalist dictatorship makes people have faith in their current system, threatening (and trying) to take it away lets people retreat to a position that capitalists also ultimately approve of and control. Its similar to candidate stacking: if both choices are pro-capitalist, then its strategically beneficial.

Would they rather eliminate voting entirely? Not really, because voting as a rigged game has proven its usefulness historically by giving people the illusion of choice, being a useful spectacle / popularity contest, and building faith in the system. Its really useful in preventing the alternative: which is worker’s taking power, and its why all working class states aim to overthrow bourgeios democracy.

Bourgeois democracy is a completely rigged game, and has proven the safest and most reliable shell for capitalist rule, regardless of voting methods or form, whether its in the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Australia, etc.

It is impossible for liberal servers to not do this every few months.

For them, legitimacy comes from proximity to their own media, educational institutions, state-produced propaganda, and power structures. Anything that challenges their white / western supremacist outlook gets demonized with “tankie” or “communist infiltration sapping our precious bodily fluids”.

It’s an absurdist meme, referencing those twitter info leak accounts.