cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/65041211
The larger star symbolizes the CCP, and the four smaller stars symbolize the four social classes of China's New Democracy mentioned in Mao Zedong's "On the People's Democratic Dictatorship": the working class, the peasantry, the urban petite bourgeoisie, and the national bourgeoisie.
Socialism is when proletariat and bourgeois work together hand-in-hand to build up and bring wealth to The Nation™ to the benefit of The People™! It's called dialectics buddy, read theory!
It's based on the theory in: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-4/mswv4_65.htm , a quick read if you're interested
The old "the state will wither away" but instead of giving at least a bad explanation of how this will be achieved, it's just "natural" and the state will "die of old age".
Until the state "dies of old age" you'd better not disobey, or else the tanks come out.
Wanting any form of voice in government is considered disobedience, and comes with extra tanks.
"quick" read 😅
that's a quick read tho