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Reformism, liberalism, social Darwinism, anarchism, pragmatism, populism, syndicalism—they all were given their moment on the stage. They all failed to solve the problems of China’s future destiny.
It is Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought that guided the Chinese people out of the darkness of that long night and established a New China;[i] it is through socialism with Chinese characteristics that China has developed so quickly.
hooting and goddamn HOLLERING at this, its so fucking good
There has been no end to the different flavors of “China collapse” theory. Yet China has not collapsed. To the contrary, our comprehensive national strength increases day by day. The living standards of the people are constantly improving.
Some have said we have engaged in a sort of “capital socialism;” others have been more straightforward, calling it “state capitalism” or “bureaucratic capitalism.” These labels are completely wrong. We say that socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism
These features embody the basic principles of scientific socialism under our new historical conditions. If we lose these, we lose socialism.
Comrade Deng Xiaoping once made a profound observation: “Our modernization must flow from Chinese realities. No matter if it is revolution or construction, we should pay attention to, learn from, and borrow from foreign experience.
However, copying other countries’ experiences and models has never been successful. We have learned a lot in this respect.”
man this ENTIRE speech is worth reading. xi addresses a lot of the dumbass arguments against china and basically says that if you think china isnt socialist its bc you dont know how chinese do shit https://palladiummag.com/2019/05/31/xi-jinping-in-translation-chinas-guiding-ideology/
'socialism with chinese characteristics' always struck me as...weirdly racist, because thats kind of the point. socialism always has national characteristics. thats the point of marxism-leninism.
like if youre trying to apply what works in the US to what works in tanzania, youre gonna run into way too many problems. but if you adapt socialism to fit the needs of americans or tanzanians, then should it be called 'socialism with x characteristics?'
i mean thats the point of socialism. the whole point is material reality influencing theory, culture, ideology! thats the point!
xi knows the criticisms and answers it pretty well here. its kind of a slam on those 'pure' marxists or 'marxists' blinded by racism who think chinese people cant do socialism
The so-called “China model,” the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, was created through the Chinese people’s own struggles. We firmly believe that as socialism with Chinese characteristics develops further,
our system will inevitably mature; it is likewise inevitable that the superiority of our socialist system will be increasingly apparent.
honestly he explains why china HAD to open its economy up to the capitalist system in the late 80s and its pretty...obvious? like yeah no shit you cant afford to be rigid post soviet collapse. its not an option.
xi also believes the positive and negative experiences were NECESSARY in making that decision and like...thats classic dialectics baby. thats historical materialism baby
Like Marx said long ago: “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.”
. We cannot use the post-reform period to repudiate the pre-reform period. Nor can we repudiate the post-reform period with the history of the pre-reform era.
The reason why I emphasize this problem is because it is a major political issue. If it is not handled well, it will have serious political consequences. As one ancient said: “To destroy a people, you must first destroy their history.”
dude like....i think you guys just dont know or care what xi jinping actually says bc this is such an astute reading. hes not stupid or acting arbitrarily.
Hostile forces at home and abroad often write essays on the history of the Chinese revolution or of New China, doing all in their power to smear and vilify that era. Their fundamental purpose is to confuse the hearts of the people.
They aim to incite them into overthrowing both the Communist Party of China’s leadership and the socialist system of our country.
hahahahaha xi reads your twitter arguments
OKAY THIS NEXT PART. YOU HAVE TO READ IT GUYS. ITS LITERALLY PERFECT
Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Communist Party of the Soviet Union fall to pieces? An important reason is that in the ideological domain, competition is fierce!
To completely repudiate the historical experience of the Soviet Union, to repudiate the history of the CPSU, to repudiate Lenin, to repudiate Stalin was to wreck chaos in Soviet ideology and engage in historical nihilism.
It caused Party organizations at all levels to have barely any function whatsoever. It robbed the Party of its leadership of the military
. In the end the CPSU—as great a Party as it was—scattered like a flock of frightened beasts! The Soviet Union—as great a country as it was—shattered into a dozen pieces. This is a lesson from the past!
PERFECT. ABSOLUTELY PERFECT.
Just think: if at the time of reform Comrade Mao had been completely repudiated, would our Party still be standing? Would our country’s system of socialism still be standing? And if it was not still standing, what would we have? A world of chaos.
We have said that there is no one-size-fits-all path of development for the entire world. There also is no path of development that does not require change.
If we throw away our Communist Party’s lofty ideals, we will lose our direction and become coldly utilitarian. At the same time, we must recognize that the realization of communism is a very long historical process.
We must ground ourselves in the struggles of the present moment and keep our work down to earth.
this is a really beautiful passage you guys should read: Revolutionary ideals reach higher than the heavens. Without lofty ideals, you do not reach the standards of a Communist Party member.
Yet those who abandon their work in the real world to vainly preach such ideals also do not reach this standard. In our Party’s ninety years of history, one generation of Communists after another did not hesitate to
shed their blood and lay down their lives for the independence and liberation of the people. They did this by relying on their faith and ideals.
Even though they knew that their ideals would not be realized by their own hands, they firmly believed that as long as the generations to come continued laboring, as long as the generations to come sacrificed for this goal, then their sublime ideals would be realized.
it has to be said that this speech is directed at the party and the bureaucracy, not at the masses. know who the intended audience of a text is.
