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  • Spoken like someone who believes that 99.99% turnout and approval is how societies actually function, like the DPRK claims.

    It is in fact United States liberal democratic theory itself that argues the legitimacy of liberal states occurs through the process of election.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

    – Declaration of Independence

    The DPRK is a bourgeoisie nation-state much like the United States.

    ‘Economy’ is a buzzword to them.

    This mind reading of what Republican or the Average Voter “really believes” provides no value. It was consistently shown both before, and after this election, the main concern of the people of the United States was that of the economy, and the worsening of their material conditions through inflation. It can be seen in the rhetoric of the Republican party, through terms such as “drain the swamp”, that the electorate of the United States is voting for a Trump as revenge against some kind of Evil Ruling Elite (The Bourgeoisie), while failing to recognize that Trump and the Republican party is a reactionary bourgeoisie party like the democrats.

    Thank you for reinforcing my point. Viewing politics as a series of isolated incidents performed for an audience of completely reasonable voters is utterly absurd, even in an ideal hypothetical situation, much less the current US.

    No idea how this is relevant to what I said. The Democratic Party supported this anti-trans bill that will lead to the deaths of transgender people.








  • A state where the biggest capital holders

    So you admit it is capitalist?

    are regularly punished if they break the law or step out of line politically is not a state where capital has final say.

    The state are capitalists, they employ workers in state enterprises and pay them a wage in exchange for their labor. They are just a different aristocratic rank then the private capitalists

    There’s been no counter revolution in China, the organs of proletarian power remain in place even as reforms have been undertaken in every facet of life in China.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

    This system would NOT be possible in a DoTP.




  • It is not defined by it being present even in the microscopic.

    Yeah, China does not have a ‘microscopic’ amount of commodity production, it is infact, dominated by commodity production.

    Answer, why do you think Marx and Engels wrong in the context of my quotations?

    They aren’t in that a certain level of productive forces are required to be present before the early stages of communism (socialism) can begin. No nation state has ever reached Socialism, in fact, it is impossible for a “Nation State” to really be socialist, from Engels principles of communism:

    Will it be possible for this revolution to take place in one country alone?

    No.

    China is a bourgeoisie nation state, with a DoTB like every other nation state.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

    This system would NOT be possible in a DoTP.



  • Socialism is a transitional status from Capitalism to Communism. There can be no immediate jump from one to the other, this jump must be gradual.

    Agreed. As in, Capitalism is also a transitional stage to Communism. China is a decidedly capitalist society, as evidenced by their production of commodities.

    Furthermore, even Communism will have an “employer-employee” relationship, insofar as it still retains labor for labor vouchers.

    There will be no “employer” class under communism. A communist society is classless. China does not use labor vouchers even, it has a system of money.

    Finally, the PRC has a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. You can’t simply assert the opposite when it’s very clear that in the PRC the State is absolute over the Bourgeoisie.

    The state is the Bourgeoisie in centrally planned economies. They extract surplus value from the Proletariat just like in a private market economy. The difference between the State Bourgeoisie and the Private Bourgeoisie, in China, is just aristocratic rank.


  • At least take a consistent stance, if you believe the PRC to not be Socialist simply because it has billionaires either you disagree with Marx or you have flawed analysis.

    The PRC is not socialist because, it produces commodities (the commodity form), Has A Dictatorship of The Bourgeoisie, The Wage System, and an employer-employee distinction.

    Which um, is in the passage you quoted:

    The essential condition for the existence, and for the sway of the bourgeois class, is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour.






  • I’m and end user

    Yeah, we all are. What’s your point?

    End users are also developers. All computer users are developers. You are developing.

    user working for end users

    By making a script that lets me get backdoors and shitty packages with ease? The linux package distribution system is a nightmare, Debian is the least bad approach. There is basically always a better option to using a .deb file. If you come across something that isn’t packaged, I recommend Flatpak, building from source (and installing unprivileged), or using the developers vendored tarball (installing unprivileged).

    https://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt

    By using local .debs you lose the benefit of:

    Reproducible builds

    GPG checksums

    Stable release model

    debian security team