The secret of the "Chinese economic miracle" is that Chinese workers are paid like dogshit, the state pays for their infrastructure costs, and independent union organizing is illegal so companies relocated their manufacturing there because it's

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cheap and easy to exploit Chinese labor when the state has your back. The HIGHEST minimum wage in the entire country works out to $3.71 an hour. The highest American minimum wage is $15.00 an hour, the US federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.

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Even adjusted for cost of living Chinese wages are fucking atrocious. This is what the Chinese economy is built on, raw exploitation of a kind the same socialists who sing the praises of Chinese socialism would find utterly intolerable in the US.

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Their ideology is ultimately rooted in American chauvinism whether they realize it not. They believe, often unconsciously, that American workers (and by extension they themselves) deserve higher wages than Chinese workers because Chinese workers

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have been poorer than American workers for centuries. I am a socialist because I believe that all belongs to all, a concept entirely foreign to the bourgeois chauvinists who back the CCP's exploitation of Chinese workers as a cover for their own

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impotence. China had the largest productive apparatus in human history. No one in China should live in poverty even by American standards. But the Chinese bourgeoisie produces commodities not fulfill human needs but to create more capital, to

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further exploit the Chinese working class to increase their own wealth. This is the real basis of "socialism with Chinese characteristics", stripped to its core it is simply raw capitalist exploitation.

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It pisses me off so fucking much that this shit is considered "socialism"

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"Wow look at how much poverty reduction the CCP's done, they've brought millions of people from [level of poverty that would be completely unacceptable to these people if it was inflicted on American workers] to [level of poverty that would be

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completely unacceptable to these people if it was inflicted on American workers], only socialism could possibly have done this" shut up. Shut the fuck up

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For everyone telling me I don't understand China's economic conditions, these pictures are of the inside of a mansion modeled after the Guggenheim owned by a man who stole money from the Chinese government. THAT'S HIS FUCKING HOUSE. HE LIVES

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THERE. That dude next to the red car thing? That's a sculpture of Ai Weiwei made by the artist himself. This dude (who again and I cannot emphasize this enough STOLE MONEY FROM THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT AND STILL LIVES IN THIS HOUSE) is so fucking

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rich that he plays with pieces of art worth more money that I will ever see in my entire life like they're fucking toys. China is not poor. It hasn't been for decades. The reason Chinese workers subsist on wages that would be fucking appalling to

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even American liberals is that its ruling class is rich. That money, EVERY SINGLE FUCKING YUAN, was extracted from the working class. Meanwhile the workers who built Shenzhen die of silicosis that the state refuses to treat.

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The people citing poverty reduction numbers have no fucking idea what those numbers mean, can't even CONCEIVE of living on the amount of money ($2.51 a day) that the World Bank considers above the poverty line. Meanwhile the Chinese ruling class

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eats their peasants and drinks their wine just like our own American bourgeois swine, laughing quietly at the indescribable rubes who in their heart of hearts actually believe they're going to "transition to communism" one day.

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