Xi’s Message of Peace:

Competition among major countries is not the theme of this era and does not solve the problems faced by China, the U.S., and the world, Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Joe Biden.

Planet Earth is big enough for both China and the U.S. to succeed, Xi said, adding that one country’s success is an opportunity for the other.

Xi said he looks forward to an in-depth exchange of views with President Biden on major strategic, overall and directional issues related to China-U.S relations and world peace and development, and reaching a new consensus.

  • qwename@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    1 year ago

    All Marxists should analyze and understand what this paragraph means, especially the part I placed in bold:

    China is promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts through Chinese modernization. It will not take the old path of colonization and plundering, or the wrong path of seeking hegemony with growing strength. It does not export its ideology, or engage in ideological confrontation with any country. China does not have a plan to surpass or unseat the United States. Likewise, the United States should not scheme to suppress and contain China.

    I think this means that there is no universal socialism button that can be pushed by any single country alone that will magically solve the problem of transitioning from capitalism to socialism. Marxists in every country must not wait for handouts, because theory is free but practice requires hard work and sacrifice.

    • relay@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      Radicalized proletariet have the duty to persue socialism from the ground up, not from above to below.

      • Munrock ☭@lemmygrad.ml
        15·
        1 year ago

        Exactly this. If the impetus doesn’t come from within, the change won’t last. Imposing change on another group will only ever make temporary change.

    • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
      10·
      1 year ago

      That has always been China’s position regarding exporting ideology. They’ve generally been of the mind that every state needs to come to their own revolution. It’s a reason they are always so explicit about “Socialism with Chinese characteristics”.

      While part of me does selfishly wish there were states a bit more proactive about facilitating socialism, the position makes absolute sense. If we look at the AES states today, none of them have exactly the same structures in place. I don’t think Chinese socialism would work in Cuba, or Cuban socialism in Vietnam.

      I organise as well as I am able to help bring about “socialism with Japanese characteristics”, and hopefully we get there someday. I believe all states will, if not necessarily in our own lifetimes.