>>4325336>elites are based on power, not capital. communism failed because it focused on efficiency instead of fighting power directlyPolitical power is the concentrated expression of economic power. You cannot separate power from material control. Why did the late Soviet Nomenklatura turn pro-Western? Because the stagnant command economy failed to generate wealth, and these bureaucrats realized that by dismantling socialism and privatizing state assets, they could transform their administrative power into private capital (becoming the post-Soviet oligarchs).
Soviet communism failed because it tried to exercise absolute political power over a collapsing and inefficient material base. Dengism already solved this issue with China: the CCP maintains absolute political power precisely by using market mechanisms and capital accumulation to enrich the nation, rather than pretending capital doesn't exist
>Russian elites were Westernized traitors who didn't care about their people. elite classes are international and always uniteYou are right that ruling classes share a general class hostility toward the working class, inter-imperialist competition is brutal and definitely not a myth. What you're wrong about is claiming elites "never truly fight" which completely ignores history. WW1 and WW2 were atrocious inter-imperialist shitflings where millions of bourgeois soldiers, officers, and ruling-class scions killed each other over colonies, trade routes, and markets.
The Russian aristocracy was indeed corrupt and detached, but their downfall was the brutal material contradictions of a crumbling feudal-imperialist state collapsing under the weight of total industrial war.
>Stalin importing Western equipment caused the Holodomor. trade with the West should be strictly restricted and manually approvedIf a socialist state seals its borders and strictly restricts trade to a handful of "manually approved" items, it would pretty much be committing economic suicide. In 1928, the Soviet Union had almost no heavy machine-tool industry. Without importing Western technology and engineers, the USSR could not build tractors, steel mills, or the tanks required to defeat Nazi Germany.
Stalin was forced into autarky and high-cost internal extraction because the capitalist world isolated the USSR. But China's economic model completely bypassed this limitation. Instead of fearing trade with the West, Deng forced Western capital to come to China, demanding technology transfers, joint ventures, and integration into global supply chains. Chinese trade was and still is used to extract wealth and industrial capacity from the West.
>China's nuclear arsenal is too small. total mutual annihilation is a myth, and China's high density makes it an easy targetYou do not need 5,000 warheads to achieve deterrence. China's nuclear strategy relies on mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles (like the DF-41) and nuclear ballistic missile submarines hidden in deep regional bastions.
If even 20 to 30 thermonuclear warheads strike major US metropolitan centers and financial hubs, the United States ceases to function as a modern state. American military planners know this, which is why they treat direct war with China as suicidal. So they're not going to be starting a war with China any time soon because the risks are just too huge to ignore.
>The West is preparing for actual war via Ukraine. China should have launched WW3 earlier by backing Russia to conquer EuropeThis is literally just left-wing military adventurism.
Mao Zedong Thought strongly opposes left-wing military adventurism.
Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, Vol. I.
"Determine our strategic orientation correctly, oppose adventurism when on the offensive, oppose conservatism when on the defensive, and oppose flightism when shifting from one place to another."
Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 243.
"If we tried to go on the offensive when the masses are not yet awakened, that would be adventurism."
Selected Works, Vol. I
"The worst thing in military affairs is to divide our forces for an adventurous advance."
Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 243.
"If we insisted on leading the masses to do anything against their will, we would certainly fail."
Same source.
"If we did not advance when the masses demand advance, that would be Right opportunism."
Selected Works, Vol. I.
"The purely military viewpoint is very highly developed among a number of comrades in the Red Army."
Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.
"Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party."
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