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Uyghur Workers Are Moved to Factories Across China to Supply Global Brands (www.nytimes.com)
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[+] -63 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Those damn capitalists in charge of checks notes the Chinese Communist Party!

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The CCP acts like just because the state owns major enterprises then the workers - through the state - own the means of production. That doesn't hold up when the state does not adequately represent the will of the workers. Never is this contradiction more clear than when the Chinese state suppresses workers' attempts to organize on their own terms.

    China is communist in the same way that the US is democratic, which is to say that it's a sham to keep up appearances that is suspended when convenient for the few who hold real power.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I am happy to criticise the US system at any point, but the notion that it's a democracy only on paper is a misrepresentation of reality.

    They managed to vote Trump out of office, and back in. Something that wouldn't have been possible if it were not a democracy.

    Now the system of course has loads of difficulties and is suffering from extreme economic inequality, that leads to an immense influence of rich people over the undereducated masses, but they still have to spend their money for massive propaganda campaigns to win votes for their side, so the fundamental processes are still democratic.

    We're gonna see if that remains the case by the end of Trump's second term, though.

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