People who discovered socialism a few months ago acting like they’re enlightened on the entire history of socialist and working class struggle and that they’ve discovered something the rest of the world has never thought of before is absolutely mind bogging and enraging. I’ve seen so many surface level “socialists” with absolutely no understanding of anything beyond just wanting free healthcare who talk about socialist countries around the world with the utmost disdain and how we actually need to distance ourselves from them to be successful socialists lol. Do people never ask themselves why the us isnt even a social democracy?

this is silly, unless you’re a Western Chauvinist yourself, the Socialist movement is not confined to struggles between Western internet kiddies, there are actual Maoist movements engaged in Protracted People’s War in India and the Philippines. MLM is not what China practices, it was synthesized by the Maoists in Peru and India, they see China as Capitalist since Deng’s reforms. If you guys were around when Jiang Zemin was in power, I would guess there would be far fewer Dengists around. Jiang and his Shanghai clique were the most blatant expression of Chinese Capitalism. It was under Jiang’s rule that the CCP officially allowed Capitalist to be members of the “Communist” Party. That’s why Chinese Bezo, Jack Ma is a full Communist member. The CCP and Xi knows that the excesses of Capitalism will lead to more and more unrest in China, that’s why they will try to keep the mega capitalists under their control. Defend China against Western Propaganda, a strong China will at least give countries under the chokehold of US imperialism some breathing space.