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[–]Anman 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

It is a common mistake to mix up Taiwan and West Taiwan.

[–]portace 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

The Taiwan/mainland conflict was manufactured and set up by the US, who are the ones who put Maoists into power in the first place.

Then they prevented the Maoists from taking Taiwan and incited genocides in both regions to get rid of certain groups and to polarize the population. Thus, setting up the Taiwan/mainland conflict.

They're going to use this conflict to set up WWIII and are sending in military pedophiles to manufacture consent on social media, who use terms such as "West Taiwan".

[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

I easily believe the US is involved, but only because of my next point.

Maoists were put into power by jews. It is communism. How they got the idea of communism and how to control the masses all came from jews.

Back to the first point, the US is controlled by israel, so that is why it makes sense.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Maoists were put into power by jews. It is communism. How they got the idea of communism and how to control the masses all came from jews.

Sure, but today's CCP ruled China isn't actually communist at all. The people/state do not own the means of production. Corporations are privately held and the economy isn't planned, its controlled by market forces. This is capitalism, but with a very authoritarian government. It resembles Fascism more than Communism

[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Congratulations, you just described actual communism. To quote my dead great uncle before communism was installed into Yugoslavia. Paraphrased: "This is going to be great, we will finally be able to live easily for once" After communism was actually installed : "This is not what they told us"

In communism, the people own nothing, and the authoritarian state run everything as capitalists with free labour. This is literally communism.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

In communism, the people own nothing, and the authoritarian state run everything as capitalists with free labour. This is literally communism.

Oh I don't doubt that's where we are headed, just that the current state of China with private billionaires like Jack Ma does not fit the traditional arrangement implied by Communism. It sounds more like Mussolini's Italy

[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

The communist manifesto literally explains a new industrial system, production and a workforce that is run by the state. The state literally is supposed to make profit off the people. The state, is of itself, not a thing. The state is made up of people at the top, who communism does not apply to. Understand, that all chinese billionaires are intact owned by the state. All major chinese businesses must have a legal controlling share by the government. At any time the government is also able to confiscate any amount of wealth at any time when these guidelines are not met.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The communist manifesto literally explains a new industrial system, production and a workforce that is run by the state.

Yes

The state is made up of people at the top, who communism does not apply to.

I understand that this is the way it plays out, but it also isn't exactly what Marx had in mind in the Communist Manifesto or Das Kapital. Not that I personally would want any sort of centralized control of the economy.

Also, not that I think it would work much better, but much ignored Kropotkin advocated for a very decentralized communism, which opens up a different set of problems

[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

Capital is, therefore, not a personal, it is a social power.

The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class; but in the movement of the present, they also represent and take care of the future of that movement.

The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total of productive forces as rapidly as possible.

-3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.

-5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

-6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.

-7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State;

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I get what you are saying Anman, and I see the similarities in some ways, but in others it is directly contradictory to the current regimes goals.

the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class

Nope

The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie

Definitely not, the bourgeousie are the ones benefitting