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I’m not Chinese, but I believe the more orthodox Marxists in the Party argue China needs to reach the capitalist stage of development before it’s able to achiev

I’m not Chinese, but I believe the more orthodox Marxists in the Party argue China needs to reach the capitalist stage of development before it’s able to achieve communism (same justification as Lenin’s for the NEP), while the “right” of the Party prefer Third Way type rhetoric of capitalism harnessed to support a welfare state. The phrase “socialism with Chinese characteristics” was common in their domestic propaganda in the 00’s; I’m not sure whether it still is.

ue_ 9y ago
Interesting, that makes sense, though of course I don't agree with either subset of the party; China has (almost?) entirely progressed to the capitalist mode of production, and if anything I believe that in China of all places the distinction between proletarian and bourgeois is most developed. It seems to me from the outside as though China has wholly abandoned the Communist cause in a less obvious way than North Korea has. I'm about to start reading Badiou on the "Communist Hypothesis". It is clear the modern Marxists and Communists in general need to develop their praxis, or I am unaware of the modern developments.