Lud's Month in China

#74

I’m still in China, no VPN so I spend most of my time playing chess or browsing reddit/realmeye forums or playing Clash of Clans :frowning:
Any of you actually fluent in Chinese?

#75

WHY THE CRAP US EVERYONE IN CHINA

I’m pretty sure Laserquest said he was going to China in the discord

#76

can speak fluently, forgot how to read and write ages ago

#77

I can speak a good amount of Chinese and my reading/writing is very sub par

#78

Communism has many shapes and forms. They are communist if that is what they call their system of governing. A communist dictatorship is a better representation really.

The government controls all lands and the economy, all very common trait for Communism.

As well as their discrimination or religion

Karl Marx himself believed religion and communism could never exist together

So yes they are communist. Thought some people can not acknowledge they are because they don’t want to admit communisms many failures

#79

Fluent enough to talk to my Chinese-only grandpa

#80

not fluent, in fact, i only speak filipino,ilocano and english.

#81

I mean, it’s more of a totalitarian dictatorship because communist nations don’t have capitalism and we all know how well that turned out for the soviets. But China does have a capitalist economy because there are low, medium, and high class citizens depending on the extent of their wealth.

Totalitarian regimes stay in political power through rule by one leader and an all-encompassing propaganda campaign, which is disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that is often marked by political repression, personality cultism, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of speech, mass surveillance and widespread use of terror.

China is literally all this except the terror part.

#82

China is considered a communist country. It may not be the communism of past times, but it’s considered a communist country. I’ve seen atleast 100 hammer and sickles on both people and advertisements.

#83

I can speak, write, and read fluently because I am a Chinese American.

#84

Communist can have classes, its about economic equality based on your skills and need. A family with 8 kids would of course need more money then a single man. A genius doctor would also be payed more then a common coal mine based upon his abilities.

They also control all commerce within in china, which exactly is what communism is about collectivism. This can include collectivist speech as well

These are also part of communism. With religious repression comes all those things really. Its hard to one without the others. Marv never lived to see communism implemented but this is what it induces, even in a perfect world as people say a fundamental of communism is religious suppression, because it is believed to control the working class. Which religous suppression is of course a bad thing

#85

I am too, but my Chinese is horrid. However my English is quite good for my age to the despair of my parents…

#86

Well, I’m born in US, but my parents really wants me to speak Chinese.

#87

It’s been ran by the communist “party” since 1949 (looked it up) so I thibk we can consider it communist despite them having elections and what nots

#88

But there is privately owned businesses and properties. If China was truly communist it would’ve fell with the soviet union.

#89

Probably because a ton of forumers are Chinese and have family there.

#90

Oh, makes sense then

#91

By the time the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was declared defunct by Mikhail Gorbachev and dissolved in 1991, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was very different from Josef Stalin’s USSR.
Glasnost and Perestroika changed the country radically from a literal lead box to a duct-tape reinforced Home Depot box.

The Union’s economy had been a potato for nearly a decade, and Reagan potatoing them into making SKiF and co. didn’t help either.

The Union moved to reform and then died due to its original failures.

#92

Hey Lud you have any cicadas blasting your ears 24/7

#93

I see you aren’t a true Chinese person. For a true Chinese person wouldn’t have this problem because they stick to the single most important principle. If you can’t beat them, fry them up and eat them.

Racist joking aside, no. Where are you right now?