Yeah, because that's what happens when a society weighed down by decades of stunted development due to mismanagement industrializes; a brief period of rapid growth as the economy catches up to the rest of the world. Incidentally, this period of rapid growth was then followed by a long period of stagnation and decline, with some sectors reaching or occasionally exceeding parity with the United States while others lagged behind. Leninism's unique contributions to the prosperity of Russia is vastly overstated.

It's true that China has fared far better than the remains of the USSR, but even the CCP is starting to falter from the rot of corruption. China's infrastructure and housing are literally falling to pieces under a reign of state capitalism; construction firms are selling houses of sand because people are purchasing property as a form of investment. Considering that China is the most successful Leninist experiment, and the PRC has existed for less than a century, the record is rather abysmal.

[trade unions] are central to our strategy

Then why did Lenin abolish them? I'm glad you think highly of trade unions, but if you didn't, you'd be neither the first, second, nor third ML that I've conversed with who said they were bourgeois institutions that preserved capitalism. Putting that aside, Lenin also clearly didn't think much about democracy either, since he overthrew the duly-elected menshiviks.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

a society weighed down by decades of stunted development due to mismanagement industrializes

yes, this is precisely the point of bothering to free ourselves with a painful and dangerous revolution, and a big part of why socialism is desireable. no capitalists making decisions solely for themselves.

China’s infrastructure and housing are literally falling

this one is simply untrue. they overbuilt housing and infrastructure on purpose. now that they have and excess of it, recently redirected their economy away from real estate, they literally massively divested and popped the bubble recently to focus on manufacturing instead. i also don't expect every socialist country to be perfect and never make mistakes, even if this one ain't it.

this sounds like the usual western media smearing of china, be careful about it since we are in the middle of a cold war.

Then why did Lenin abolish them?

soviets remained a thing before and throughout the entire existence of the USSR, again they are central to the ML strategy and democracy.

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

socialism is desireable. no capitalists making decisions solely for themselves.

> MLism isn't a good example of socialism.

"Ah, but have you considered that capitalism is bad?"

painful and dangerous revolution

The October Revolution had 0 deaths on either side. It worked because the government fell to pieces instantly and there was no resistance.

this one is simply untrue [...] western media smearing of china, be careful about it since we are in the middle of a cold war.

I'm marking that down on my bingo card.

they overbuilt housing and infrastructure on purpose

"No, making empty houses was all a part of Daddy Xi's 7D Chess game!" 🤣

This sounds like tankie media lionizing China. Be careful of that, because literally all of them have always been entirely unreliable.

throughout the entire existence of the USSR

Wow, I didn't realize the USSR ended in 1919. I'll have to tell my friends.

central to the ML strategy

Wow, I never realized that fascists playing "we're socialists actually" stepping directly on worker's necks was required. I always thought it was incidental.

MLs aren't socialists. You are not a socialist. Marx specifically warned against people who would use revolutionary language to subvert and infiltrate, and that's tankie creeps like you.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

MLism isn’t a good example of socialism.

Its the only real example my dude, ive implied its the biggest reason its the movement im in, but ill say it explicitly now. i keep having to repeat things wont be perfect from the get go, if your expectation is perfection or nothing then you will get nothing. i'm not advocating for countries be exactly like china or russia either.

Wow, I didn’t realize the USSR ended in 1919. I’ll have to tell my friends. The October Revolution had 0 deaths on either side.

I never said it didnt. You are purposefully misinterpreting me at this point.

thats only true if you consider the beggining of the revolution. look up who funded the white army and why. also look at revolutions literally anywhere else they were tried instead of cherrypicking and you will see an opposite trend.

sounds like tankie media lionizing China

china themselves said they would before they did (look up their 5yr plans btw, they frequently achieve their goals), and to much lesser extent western analysts. not "tankie media".

i have no reason to believe your western bullshit over them on matters pertaining to chinese internal affairs, when you yourself is parroting the 'infrastructure made of sand' crap

Wow, I never realized that fascists playing “we’re socialists actually”

you are the one doing that. ive seen you present zero solutions or alternatives so far, and lies and misrepresentations about the ones we have. you cant consider yourself a socialist if you are an anti-communist who hates literally all socialist experiments ever tried, and repeat the western red scare propaganda about every country that ever tried it.

ML lifted maybe a couple of hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and improved living conditions to hundreds of millions more, those are historical facts that even non-fascist neoliberals ive listened to avoid disputing. you could also present better ideas instead of criticizing something you don't seem to understand nor have the curiosity to learn about. kindly go fuck yourself.

honestly at this point i have no reason to talk to you any further, you are turning a debate of ideas into name-calling. i love talking about politics, but this ain't happening here anymore.