on the socialist character of china
@yogthos @ArindamAnyway, i won't continue to bother on this, i will check out that book, i'm sure there are some facts in there, maybe i'll learn something but i'm sure i'll disagree lol, i think you are taking this naive line because you think it's necessary to defend actually existing socialism, but there are plenty of Marxist Leninists even who disagree with you, like in the Philippines, Inda, Nepal, Russian Federation, there are communist parties who identify china as an emergent imperialist power, state capitalists etc. this isn't just a western line, i'm not a ml or maoist, i'm just saying you can be a principled communist / anti-imperialist without taking this uncritical line.
Personally i would like Xi more if he killed more billionaires and nationalized large sections of the economy, and it's reasonable to say that could happen, the PRC has the institutional ability to do this unlike western countries, so maybe there is this proletarian character of the chinese state, but i think it's certainly dormant, and would take a long protracted struggle to oust the bourgeoisie from the halls of power.