[+] -6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I don't think the casualties have much of anything to do with any of that. It's not like you can control the consequences of climate change, such as natural disasters. At least in that aspect China is doing the most out of any country to fight against global warming.

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  • [+] -16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I didn't expect that to be world news. Why do people all over the ocean even care what a small chinese construction company has done in some chinese village? Bad business practices are a thing all over the world, don't need to look all the way to China to find issues. I bet you can find some right in your city where you currently live. At least I can

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    an actual self-serving but smart understanding of capitalism

    Welcome to marxism-leninism. Socialist state building is about achieving progress for the people. That can mean building up production forces and engaging in capitalism, as long as the capitalist class is subject to the peoples wishes.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    First and foremost, there's no such thing as a "communist country". Communism is a very late stage of socialist development when all class contradictions have been abolished. We don't know what that might look like, but the consensus is that we can't really talk about a country being communist but rather an overall state of the world.

    Secondly, China has a fairly good grip over its billionaire class. They don't have the class power their class has in the US, Europe, or the rest of the western capitalist world. The capitalist class in China is subject to the wishes of the working class represented by the party with its over 100 million members.

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