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Nah. Being attacked by evil doesn't make you good.
You've got to stop with this black-and-white thinking.
You talk about black and white thinking in the same breath you talk about good and evil, which is some shit that isn't real. It's leftover christian DNA in our psychology, it's the long shadow of the church looming over our thoughts. There's no grand referee, there's no universal morality. There's just a bunch of animals trying to survive, and we make our own moral code, and we do so in the understanding that it's not about pleasing some absentee god but about living with ourselves.
Ironically, it's you who is thinking in black and white right now, in binary "good or bad, saints or sinners". You are, without meaning to do so I think, pulling a "he was no angel" about the country of Iran. We have to think relatively, not ideally, because there is no fixed good or evil: it's all defined by what's around it. Comparative analysis is all we have. In this context, between the US zionist axis of empire and Iran, Iran is indeed the "good guys".
Yeah there isn't a nation-state on earth that is a friend to the working class.
Lol try harder fed
There are several socialist countries. What do you mean by "friend to the working classes" if not socialism?
State capitalism is not socialism, and it is not a friend of the working class.
Sure, but I'm not talking about the ROK or Singapore, I'm talking about socialist countries like the PRC and Cuba.
"State capitalism" is not a thing
Sure buddy, sure.
Take it this way, then:
Socialism is when the workers are in control of the means of production. Supposedly, socialist countries accomplish this by the state being in control of the means of production and the workers supposedly in control of the state. But in reality, the workers are not in control of the state, so the workers are not in control of the means of production, and it's not socialism.
Out of curiosity who do you think controls the state in China? Do you know how the Chinese state is structured? Do you know how Chinese democracy and political involvement works? What sources did you use to study China, the Chinese government and China's democratic methods?
Not the workers.
The workers disagree with you
Well if you think that it's capitalism you think the primary contradiction in china is between the bourgeosie and the proletariat. Which of these control the state?
So you're a troll? You are just saying things, you haven't investigated at all?
Respond the other questions, give us data, sources, speak with substance if you have any, unless you're just repeating propaganda, and you wouldn't do that, right?
Not OC, but I do think its impossible that the goverment not made of worker class representstives can be socialistic (or where worker class is underrepresented).
Just by the simple fact they do not represent the wast masses, they will ultimately be disconnected from workers and/or serve their own petty bourgeoisie interests.
Agreed?
Even ancient Greeks knew that when the representatives in democracy come from rich families they always serve their families first (see sortition, a practice they used to offset that).