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What have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

You linked a trotskyist "China watching" org, of course they are going to portray China as though it's in crisis when it's steadily doing better and better. This is why China's approval rates are so high:

Secondly, the link I provided talks about worker interests, in China the interests of the state are aligned with the interests of the workers, hence the worker backlash against Lenovo.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    You've shared this picture twice, but i cant find the study related to it.

    Do you have better sources on tracking strikes in mainland China? The only other places i found info were US finance reporting on as a mattet of investment concern.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Wasn't too hard to find, IMO.

    Overall, it's difficult to find accurate data on strikes in China in english that's not intentionally massaged or outright fabricated. There's a ton of money in distorting it. However, it's important to recognize that China's system is broadly supported, and strikes are not as necessary to enact systemic changes.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    You do see why the argument that strikes are rarely allowed but conveintly thats ok because they are needed or wanted isnt very convicing right?

    I can seem to find numbers supporting that are a rise in strikes which line up with the global trend of economic unrest, I can not find numbers suggesting what you are saying though, and instead you seem to be suggesting that yes there is an increase of illegal strikes but no body actually or needs them because the states interests are the peoples interests. That seems inconcruent to the data showing that people are in fact striking. Which is why i was asking about different data sources. Id take non-english data sources as well to be honest. Translatinh the label and methods may take some effort but i can Arabic Numerals in almost any context.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Even by western sources, strikes are falling. You keep framing them as "illegal strikes," and in general seem content on just parroting anti-China viewpoints. If they are striking, it's because China is bad, if they aren't, it's because they aren't allowed to, etc etc. It's as Michael Parenti puts it, a "non-falsifiable orthodoxy."

    My point from the beginning is that China does have some strikes, but the context of said strikes is different from capitalist countries and as such trying to use "number of strikes" as a state of worker well-being is poor logic. The numbers do back broad support for China and for socialism, which is why I've shared them.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Im not seeing what you are saying represented in the link you provided.

    Groups like CLB are saying that the strikes they are tracking are illegal strikes because the official unions are not acts on the demands of their members. Basically the sole source ive found and that you have shared. We seem to have no data to point that says otherwise.

    The steelman version of what you present to me is that China has no need for strikes and that all reporting on strikes is false. Implying every group of workers in China are content to live and die in service to States ambitions as all interpersonal conflict between employer and employees is mediated without fail in some other system besides collective barganing and worker's demostrations of solidarity.

    Am i to believe that AND that China a safe place for foreign investment as is also claimed by the CCP? And if so, how?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    No, you're again mischaracterizing my point. I stated clearly my beliefs in the last comment, and now you're sealioning.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    My point still is that if the working class fighting for better conditions for themselves is illegal the state is not on their side. Which by the numbers it is.

    This is just an example of it but is part of larger trend of extreme (worse than the US on rights is extreme) worker explotation and supression.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Strikes are not the main way workers fight for better conditions for themselves in socialism, the society as a whole is oriented in a fashion where this is achievable by reform and referendum, democratic institutions. Strikes can and have been used by western, anti-communist groups against socialist systems, and this is what's illegal. You're again falsely pretending the PRC and US Empire have the same economic system, and thus mechanisms like strikes have the same utility in each, but that's not the case. Strikes are more useful in capitalist economies where the state is on the side of the capitalists.

    During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

    • Dr. Michael Parenti
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  • [โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    It's exactly what you're saying. Workers wield collective power through the state in the PRC, that is their primary means. Tracking strike numbers isn't an accurate assessment of the health of the economic system or the support workers have for socialism. Instead, looking at metrics I've shared like worker confidence in the system and support for it directly state that people broadly support the system overall.

    Your comments about Xinjiang were removed because they were Fox News-style conspiracy theory, not actual grounded analysis. I already linked what I recommend you check out.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Then why would there still be so many examples of workers effectivally saying otherwise despite the legal risk?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)

    There aren't. The system isn't perfect, of course, but overall the working class supports their socialist system, and believe it represents their interests. Strikes are largely against capitalists when they do happen, not socialism. You've been shown several times that the system is consistently and overwhelmingly supported by over 90% of people, far higher than western countries, yet you continue to hem and haw around that while vaguely gesturing towards the fact that strikes exist in China, as though that alone is a point.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    The fact that strikes are illegal and against capitalists implies the state is protecting capitalist intetests and not worker interests.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Strikes are not illegal in China. Strikes are regulated. Again, the people support their system broadly, the large firms and key industries are publicly owned, capitalists are regularly executed by the state. You keep affirming a view of China that does not exist, ie one where capitalists are empowered at the expense of workers, when the opposite is true, and is why the studies you've been shown reflect extremely positive views of society and the direction China is going in among the working class.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago*

    No, this is wrong on all accounts. The fact that over 90% of people support the system and believe it to be headed in the right direction, the fact that the large firms and key industries are publicly owned, and the fact that year over year conditions are rapidly improving for the working class do not support your claims.

    There are not "concentration camps." The existence of strikes that additionally break the law do not mean strikes are illegal. Western, state-funded propaganda outlets like the Victims of Communism Foundation, BBC, and Radio Free Asia do not honestly depict the PRC. Wealth disparity is falling in China, and more importantly working class conditions are dramatically improving and have been for almost a century.

    You have a very confused and distorted view caused by looking at relatively minor problems as though they are widespread and massive. You also have no evidence backing your claims, other than the idea that strikes exist in China. The working class became the ruling class at the founding of the PRC, and has been since. There has never been a time where capitalists have become the ruling class. There hasn't been a successful counter-revolution.

    I think if you want to understand China more, you should at least familiarize yourself with the basics of Marxism-Leninism. You can use my intro ML reading list, or Qiao Collective's SWCC intro reading guide.

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