China’s Leaders Confront an Unlikely Foe: Ardent Young Communists
I&#x27;m a Marxist, not a Marxist-Leninist or of other ideological factions, but I&#x27;m a Marxist in the sense that I read Marx&#x27; and Engels&#x27; and other people influenced by their ideas and thought their methods of trying understand social phenomenona are interesting and worthwhile. I don&#x27;t wanna get into flamewars, I hate ideologies and believe at its core Marxism is materialism (which is the philosophical opposite of idealism).<p>Since China is a very hot topic in HN, and since I&#x27;m a software engineer, I want to share my ideas on this issue in a few sentences with my community. China&#x27;s Communist Party was never about communism but rather about Big-C Communism which is the ideology formed in late 19th century, supposedly influenced by Marx&#x27; revolutionary ideas. What Big-C Communism captures is the method in which capitalims is sought to be destroyed, and thus by nature is not dynamic in and of itself. It cannot understand the real material conditions of modern China as it was formed before those conditions were realized. Since the natural process that creates capitalism is value generation and thus commodity production, it&#x27;s pretty clear who paid attention to Marx that China is as capitalist as USA. I think our discussions would be more rational if we frame &quot;China&quot; discussions in terms of &quot;authoritarianism&quot; and not &quot;communism&quot;.