Ah, fortunately we have you, the one and only person immune to indoctrination, to tell us ignorant foreigners what is and is not a democracy, because we’re just too damn indoctrinated to know for ourselves.

Ofc indoctrinated citizens think they’re a democracy, they also probably have different understanding of democracy

How do you justify dismissing it as indoctrination? And if the majority think of it as a democracy, under what definition or understanding of democracy is the perspective of the majority not of prime importance?

America isn’t a democracy either but people are brainwashed into believing it is. Most of the Americans that choose “not a democracy” in that poll are Republicans that’ll say “democracy is mob-rule, we’re a Republic!”

The first part of this I agree with (other than the notion of brainwashing), but I don’t understand where you’re getting the second part. According to that poll I linked about perceptions of democracy, 73% of US citizens value democracy, which doesn’t fit with 51% thinking it’s not a democracy, but liking it that way because they think democracy is mob rule.

Does this look democratic to you?

I don’t consider the contentiousness of elections to be of primary importance when evaluating if a government is democratic, but given the measurable advancements that have occurred in China under Xi’s leadership, I can buy that he would have such immense support, particularly if there isn’t an equally appealing alternative with such a proven track record.

CPSU, CPV, CPK, etc… CCP is a weird, racist neologism coined by the west to emphasize the “Chinese” part of the moniker. CPC is the standard nomenclature.

You clearly don’t know a damn thing about socialism that you didn’t learn from breadtube

So you want Xi to press the communism button?

On a serious note, through a communist party controlled state, Chinese workers clearly have greater control over the means of production than workers anywhere else in the world. That’s why they were able to use the resources their own labor created to do things like have an effective covid response.

you guys are clearly warmongerers that want as many dead Ukrainians as possible

This doesn’t even make any sense. People normally criticize us for wanting Ukraine to surrender to end the war – are you just making this up, or??

you guys are clearly warmongers that want as many dead Ukrainian as possible.

That is so offensive, don’t compare us to Zelensky, please.

How could Russia ‘invade’ Donbas if they were invited? You’ve been asked this several times and avoided answering every one.

Overall yes I’d agree that the communists are winning, I like most of what Xi is doing personally and respect him far more than any other world leader.

At the same time the ideological discipline isn’t there in the same way that it was during the Maoist period. Liberals and business owners are allowed to be party members. I don’t think it’s wise to give them such a foothold, but I don’t know enough to comment much further or offer any useful criticism.

At the end of the day, I’d love to see the PRC introduce a worldwide expansion of socialist principles as much as anyone else here, although my hope is more cautious than other comrades here. As you say, the result speak for themselves, and they still have a couple decades of runway to dial in their targeting systems and fire off the communism button at the right time.

It’s an odd thing to think, like I said there are many communists, but it’s far from everyone, and the politics are not as straightforward as they are here on our site where we aren’t actually in charge of anything.

Many academic Marxists comment on this, read Wang Hui as an example

See other comments, but I would suggest that statement is overly broad on it’s own. There is a large liberal continent within the party, although they are still on their heels.

Hey, I’m a tankie.