Sounds more like you’re downplaying the utter parasitism of the EU, when you are trying to make it about European suffering more than global south liberation.

No, it isn’t. If the European economy runs on imperialism, then the European working classes have a duty to overthrow that imperialist system that they benefit from in order to stop leaching off the global south, and start planning the economy to suit the needs of the people.

I treat all countries the same way, my evaluation of them changes depending on the country.

As for your critique of China, surveillance, suppression of misinformation and capitalist viewpoints, etc. are directed against capitalists. It’s a working class state wielding authority against reactionaries. The west also uses state authority against class enemies, it just so happens that these class enemies are the working classes. Opposing socialist democracies is a reactionary viewpoint, even if you consider yourself to be anti-capitalist you’d still be going against both the will of the majority and the working classes.

As for imperialist countries, they aren’t generally improving. The reason for this is dependence on imperialism, and putting profit over need. They cannot effectively improve the lives of their people. This isn’t me treating them differently, but instead evaluating them based on their own (lack of) merit.

As for China being “violent and aggressive given the opportunity,” this is silly and unfounded.

Nah, wanting the imperialist countries to no longer have the ability to be imperialist is anti-imperialism.

I don’t really see any major issues China has that aren’t being actively worked on, big or small. China of course has problems, but these aren’t static and permanent. China is both socialist and anti-imperialist, so in that way it makes sense.

Zoom out, 100 years pass. What do you think is going to get worse in China? What is China doing that’s actively progressing in a bad direction?

I think you’re confusing my condemnation of imperialist countries as being unable to address their problems due to the faulty mode of production they rely on, with the belief that these are simply “negatives.” I see them in the same way all societies have problems, the difference is that some societies are actually able to address these problems by putting needs over profits, and this goes back to the mode of production.

Why do you think I constantly centered imperialism as a problem unable to be solved without revolution?

I’ve done that a few times before, haha.

You’re confusing anti imperialism with accelerationism.

Again, the majority of people who lived in socialist countries where socialism was dissolved regret its fall. This makes sense, considering an estimated 7-10 million people died from its dissolution, child prostitution skyrocketed, drug abuse skyrocketed, life expectancy plummeted, homelessness rose, joblesness rose, and economic growth stagnated or collapsed in most countries, only barely recovering decades later and with a privledged few making it out ahead with the rest left behind.

In reality, the USSR was dissolved from the top-down, by the Yeltsin faction, against the wishes of the people.

After this referendum, crisis hit and political instability skyrocketed, resulting in an agreement pushed by those who would loot the former Soviet States for profit.

“True” socialism isn’t a thing, a system is either socialist or it is not, and socialism has many various characteristics depending on the material conditions the society building socialism is found in.

Why is Lukács relevant? Why not Lenin? Further, Lenin was Slavic, and very much not considered white at the time of writing (and still not today, depending on who you ask). Also not sure why you are so condescending towards others, that’s not any kind of way to teach someone something (regardless of merit or lack thereof).

This isn’t a LARP community, theory and practice mutually reinforce each other. You cannot effectively practice without theory, and theory without practice loses its grasp on reality.

Those who have labor as their primary source of income, but own capital and thus desire a maintenance of capitalism, are petite bourgeoisie.

Administration. There’s a huge difference between administrative labor, and entitlement to the fruits of labor via private ownership of the means of production and distribution.

Being apart from the norm isn’t an indication of correctness or incorrectness, and the overwhelming majority of those who lived in socialist countries that dissolved socialism regret said dissolution, so not sure what your point is.

Why?

The DNC isn’t even trying to appeal to leftists, they purely care about their donors, same as the GOP.

I’ve said a number of things are problems, such as the urban/rural development gap. This is a problem to be solved, and thankfully it’s one being actively worked upon. How is this not a “negative” in your view? You keep trying to look at things as a laundry list of pros and cons, and try to put things into neat categories, but that’s not how the world works.

I don’t present China as universally positive, I have drawn a clear line between socialist countries that are generally working towards a better society, imperialist countries that have been declining and are a net drain on the world, and non-socialist countries in the periphery that ultimately are progressing, albeit not necessarily as much as they could be if they were socialist.

There’s also the fact that we aren’t at all on the same page when it comes to dialectical materialism as being the start point for any genuine analysis, and as such I tend to reject framing that involves metaphysics.

As I already explained, China is not a monolith. You can look at any western country and find similar state repression at the local level, which is even more varied in China due to having 1.4 billion people. You are looking at it one-dimensionally, which is the problem I was getting at earlier.

There’s a difference between critique, and “holding accountable.” One is a matter of judgment, and the latter is not possible without control. As for judgment, it’s important to actually have an all-sided view, not just those of foreigners looking in. As for problems in China, the positive is that the CPC is working on the pressing problems in China as seen by the Chinese people.

As for China working on queer rights, here’s a video from CGTN talking about the progress of queer rights, and here’s one from Jin Xing on CGTN talking about the progression of trans rights. The state controls media like CGTN, the purpose here is to gradually improve public perception of LGBTQ rights and bring the people upward on it, as in China policy generally comes from below, not above.

As for fastest developing, in terms of economic growth, life expectancy, literacy rates, you name it. Compare the China of today with 10 years ago, 20, 50, and 100. It’s an incredible feat.