Whatever flaws modern China may have, nothing will ever diminish how historic of an achievement this is. What China managed to do in going from 1949 to what it is today is nothing short of a miracle.
I'm making this post because quite frankly, at this point, i just don't care anymore for the constant nitpicking and purity testing that i have to constantly read and hear from western leftists.
I just want this for the entire global south. If it means that a people who have suffered so much in their history get to finally live like human beings with dignity, happiness and prosperity, i don't give a fuck that they aren't "doing socialism right".
Call them nationalists, call them revisionists, call them liberals, call them whatever names you like, fact is one and a half billion people are now living in a modern, developed, stable, peaceful and increasingly prosperous society.
Long live the Communist Party of China and long live the People's Republic!
$2.15 (USD in 2022) a day is a manmade invention. One person providing for themself, in a localized economic context, would easily have labor that would be assessed above $755 a year. For the same work, the ability of one worker to get the same wages per week as a worker across the world gets in a year is only possible under the globalized capitalist market.
You can't look at a wage below $3 an hour without thinking "either the boss is really bad at business or the boss is ripping off employees".
Yes, if workers were compensated in full for the value they produce there would be no poverty.
However, exploitation is bigger than just the employer-employee relationship. It also exists on a global level between countries. Entire nations are suffering from poverty because they are being collectively exploited as a country by imperialism and neo-colonialism. It's not just bosses ripping them off, it's the whole Western-led international capitalist system. That is why taking back your sovereignty is key to even being able to start to tackle the economic problems. We can see this happening in real time in Burkina Faso today.
Yep. Boss, shareholder, beneficiary of enterprise. I should have made that clearer.