I talked with a communist the other day, who was advertising for a communist newspaper he, I’m guessing, works for. Well he asked me if I am organised, to which I said yes and we started talking. At some point I said smth positive abt China and he was like: “uh… So China is socialist to you?”. That’s when I took a deep breath and started having a discussion with him.

I stated that there are only like 24 capitalists in the bottom part of the Party, which consists of thousands of people. I also said that the government is known to support workers on strike. But he in turn argued that the Chinese gov may support strikers, but since it’s “state-capitalism” they still have to bend in the direction of the companies, cuz of the profits and so on. He also said that their economy is sure to collapse soon. I just thought abt the metric shitload of videos that comes out every year claiming China’s economy will collapse any second now My guy cited the fact that Evergrande, a company that according to him makes up a rly big part of their economy, filed for bankrupcy in the US or so.

Well quite frankly I was standing there, I’d say a pretty good understanding of China, but I couldn’t outright refute his claims or present a compelling counterargument. So I’ve been looking forward to talking with any comrade abt that so that I could learn abt how to deal with this in the future, and to learn abt valid counter arguments as well.

Doesn’t roll off the tongue as much, does it xD tho my problem is, u just replace one company with another. I mean obv one is decisively bigger than the other, so I do get the appeal. But it’s still a company. So profit will still be higher on the list than any morals.

Aha o.O Would u prefer it over DuckDuckGo? Any pros and cons? Would be hella interested in that

Oh, I live in Austria! Maybe should have specified that, lol. I rly thought it would be the same for ppl in germany as well. At least here we say Tixo tho, I think I heard it on german telivision ‘Tesaband’? Ig it makes sense that there’s regional differences for this stuff.

It’s normal that brand names become widely used synonyms for basic activities. Just one example would be this one: In german ppl call adhesive tape “tixo” like the company producing it. So before we abolish capitalism this problem will keep on existing.

I am trying not to use those words but even though i’m using DuckDuckgGo, “Googling smth” is just so widely used, it’s too hard to stop using it and it’d also be kinda useless to do so, like what am I going to achieve there?

Once socialism has brought us world wide communism, sure UwU But honestly I don’t think Anarchists and Communists could coexist in times where it would be important to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. Or generally, in times where Communism hasn’t yet been brought about. The Anarchists would simply disagree with our approach and fight against it, I assume. So I’d say they’d stand in our way big time… Same with the Trotskyists.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. About Malema himself, whom I haven’t heard about up until now, there is a book called “The coming revolution: Julius Malema and the fight for economic freedom” (https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=EDCED55FD90E120459F21950A0EDB67B)

I’m sorry but all I can find in terms of articles are those made by some bourgeois newsletters. Found an article from “biznews.com”. You can imagine what kind of take they had. I can link to it here if you wanna read about what he said and are willing to forego the loss in braincells. The first part of the article is decent as in it vaguely states what he said: (https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2023/08/22/james-myburgh-kill-the-boer-discourse)

That being said, here’s a cool video by “African Diaspora News Channel”: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3HxvSkMMZc)

And here a 3 month old video of an Interview with him by a channel called “Economic Freedom Fighters”: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X4ynX6rNSI)

When it comes to my opinion: Down with the US and its disgusting empire! I do not personally like Putin or his state at all, but they are just a symptom of the US’ imperialism. For South Africa to be forced by the west to take a stance here by arresting Putin, is just outrageous and the usual western intervention in the politics of nations that they’re exploiting. When it comes to supporting the US or Russia, I’m taking the latter, as the US would be weakened, the global south would get better deals with Russia and China and thus the power of Socialism globally would grow. So in the end I think Malema is right in his speech.

Also, I like his beret, so extra points there o.O