Xi is a tankie?!

but I thought Xi was an arachno-Bidenist

Xi is more far far left than vanguard of the revolution, Joe Biden 😨
- whoa

who remembers? 🤔

I like how many 'staunch anti-communists' have no clue what marxism-leninism is 😂
- 'material...conditions? Is that like a Madonna song from the 80s?'

Liberals: "marxist-leninist? I though he was a communist!"

I have to say that I feel like the Chinese Revolution of 1949 has been utterly betrayed and sold out. Things used to be great. Now? A Marxist-Leninist? Truly dark and unprecedented times in China. I supported them until now, I can’t support Extremism smh Free TaibetJiang

Pack it up guys, gals, and everyone in between, some lib slammed poor Xi with a verbal accusation that he is what he has always been. Communism will never recover. China will collapse tomorrow.

My first downvote from a salty lib on my new account 🥹

This just in, Liberals have SLAMMED lemmygrad user @MCU_H8ER with a SCATHING downvote. More to come an 7.
- 'When reached for comment, the lemmygrad user claimed that the libs anger actually was making him stronger. He then said he was going to lift some weights while listening to Parenti lectures.'

just the logical thing to do 🤷

(Shocked gasp)

Something something redfash tankie something something

i can't find this video on f*x's channel, probably fake but i also didnt search very well bc it's still funny and i dont care.

but if someone does have a link share it here, it look hilarious

Crying, shaking, and shitting my pants rn. I don't want this to be true

Tankies are people who defend China (and originally the USSR)/any "communist" countries actions no matter what. While Xi is undoubtedly a tanky, the meme is just calling him a communist. Which isn't even accurate honestly. I really wish we could move past communist/socialist being an insult. It isn't. Any student of economics knows that the US and every European nation uses several of Marx's 10 pillars of a communist society and socialist ideas.

Pure capitalism hasn't been around since the great depression for a reason. We've slowly matched back that direction since like the 50-60s. Which is a reason for a lot of the economic issues experienced in the West lately... We're back to the age of robber barrens. It's pretty lit.

If he is a communist, few is doing a shit job at it. China's wealth disparity is on par with the US.

You realize that China has eliminated extreme poverty right? Also this: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1275827
- It's not a classless utopia yet, so it's a failure.
- It has not and there is still massive wealth disparity.

the communist party of China is about as communist as the democratic republic of the congo is democratic

I'm going to attempt to reply to this earnestly.

This rhetoric is common with actually existing socialist (AES) states. The reality is the world is very complex and transitions from one system to another can sometimes take centuries.

Here is a brief video from Prof. Richard Wolff that explains some things about China and it's system over the last few decades:

https://youtu.be/_nY3VSmA-l8

Also if you're going to mention the Democratic Republic of the Congo, do you know about Patrice Lumumba?
- I've seen all of this over the years, I'm not ignorant to Prof. Wolff nor the repeated claims that the socialism with Chinese characteristics is some 4-dimensional chess to deliver communism within some inspecific timeframe.
  
  But even in the CCPs own language and actions, it's clear they're much more interested in entrenching capitalism with a welfare state than they are transitioning to socialism.
  
  For a "socialist" state they seem very keen on repressing the Filipino maoist insurgencies, propping up the fascist Russian regime, and maintaining a domestic system of capital accumulation that was introduced as an infamous regression from socialist principles established after their numerous revolutions.
  
  China is objectively a lot better than many countries on dozens of metrics but calling it "actually existing socialism" is to misunderstand all three constituent words in that infamous acronym.
  
  Respond or not, I don't expect to turn anyone's mind here. Just sad that being a different brand of capitalism that is marginally more concerned with social development than its competitors is somehow the bar for socialism among some circles.

I'll explain: the Comunist ideology is like one the big religions - there are lots of breakaway groups who sometimes even hate each other more than they hate everybody else.

So Xi is supposed to be a Maoist Communist and he just got called a Marxist-Leninist, about as insulting as calling a Catholic in Northern-Ireland a "Protestant".

Unfortunately, you are wrong about everything except for leftist infighting.
- Yeah, just noticed this is post on a Lemmygrad forum.
  
  I'll yield to the experts!

He's just another dictator regardless of what colour he paints the regime in

take your opinions elsewhere
- I love how big it is here. Really gets the message across.
Said by individual who I would bet €100 couldn’t explain even the basics of how PRC government or democratic process is structured
- I'd bet $100 they would struggle to point China out on a map.
- China is a dictatorship regardless of what you want to believe. And only because you have nine parties by name it's no democracy when they form a united front and they're all just subordinate to the CCP.
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Dictator is when you raise the standard of living.