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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Also even if you believe that the democratically elected leadership of China are a new distinct class, they are empirically not capitalists and empirically not violent on anywhere close to a comparable scale to capitalist leadership. Their politics are that of mutual cooperation and advancement because 1a) they understand imperial extraction is economically inefficient in the long term 1b) have sufficient control over the state and economy to prevent it 2) they need strong allies to protect themselves from imperialist encirclement and imperial powers keep trying to weaken the rest of the world

(I don't agree that the Chinese elected leadership constitute a new class, I'm just saying for the sake of talking to folks who do)