Yes I know China is also technically capitalist but you understand the idea
NaibofTabr 19 points a year ago
Ha ha, no. Petroleum lobby needs a new pair of shoes.
52fighters 30 points a year ago
China is about a fascist as they come. One virtue doesn't eliminate 100 vices.
NaibofTabr 17 points a year ago
Say what you want about the PRC, they make the trains run on time.
(the secret ingredient is slave labor!)
NaibofTabr 2 points a year ago
Oh no, they also do a lot of work in the food industry.
technocrit 2 points a year ago
(the secret ingredient is slave labor!)
Same as any colonizer.
BrainInABox 0 points a year ago
Source: it came to me in a USA government funded dream
BrainInABox -3 points a year ago
Sure, if you're one of those people who just uses fascism to mean "the bad guy in my hero vs villain worldview"
infinitesunrise 9 points a year ago
China's nationwide passenger rail network doesn't really care if you have a valid point or not.
NaibofTabr 0 points a year ago
Yes, comrade, we have the best trains. They are most efficient for getting workers to the labor camps. We must work hard to build the glorious future for dear leader our people!
NaibofTabr 1 point a year ago
Potato, tomato...
Concentration camp is where you go when you really need to focus on learning to be a better wage slave party member patriot nationalist lunatic citizen.
NaibofTabr 1 point a year ago
republicans who are saying china is bad because of communism.
Yes, well, those are some very confused people who wouldn't know communism from a hole in the ground.
They're a lot like the people on .ml and hexbear, even some of the people on .world.
Goldholz 28 points a year ago
China is as communist as the vatican is good for kids
But sure let us be blinded by propaganda and ignore that the trains in china are held together by ducktape, rails are unsafe and got build with slave labor :)
GoodOleAmerika 9 points a year ago
Don't think u have travelled to china. Their rail system is fantastic. All out train in US looks like came from steel mill from Philadelphia. Boxy trash and slow af
Goldholz -9 points a year ago
Dont need to travel to see that chinese people live in poverty, anything can be done when you are a dictatorship, its corrupt and everything is a scam. Fake meat, fake tofu, tofu drag constructions, 4 billion on a road and all the village got was a gravel path. Where a state teaches kids to hate other nations and disrespect everything for something that happened 80 years ago instead of making sure this does not ever happen again. Where its a national sport to go abroad and harass others. Where the state doesnt care about your stolen things, but if you speak out publicly against it, you will be warned with a kind "take that down, or else".
If their electric cars are anything to go by, i dont even want to step on their most modern trains even if they give me trillions of GBP.
If the regime is supposed to be an example of progress, well guess then we all should go back to european monarchy and imperialism. Europe thrived in the 19th century afterall. Just look at all those rich people living luxurious lifes. All the advancements in science, medicine, transportation, literatur, architectur, social policies, unification of people split appart and more.
If i were to travel to china they would arrest me on the airport for critisising china and not seeing the CCP as legitimite and supporting taiwan, that being if i would even be allowed to enter the country.
The USA train system is shit, yes, thats not even on debate. Against that even the russian train system is amazing.
Also china didnt build its high speed trains on their own. They used EU and japanese tech.
Japan has the best train system in the entire world, and that without being a supressive, all survaling dictatorship. OP here is comparing shit, scooped from the toilet, to a microwave meal, that got a mediocer plate up. Ofc then in comparison the microwave meal will look better.
jaek 6 points a year ago
Where a state teaches kids to hate other nations and disrespect everything for something that happened 80 years ago instead of making sure this does not ever happen again. Where its a national sport to go abroad and harass others. Where the state doesnt care about your stolen things, but if you speak out publicly against it, you will be warned with a kind "take that down, or else".
Are you talking about the US or china here?
mojofrododojo 8 points a year ago
nd ignore that the trains in china are held together by ducktape, rails are unsafe and got build with slave labor :)
?? I don't love china but ignoring the enormous amount of investment they've made is silly. that's what it is, investment. The amount of roads and rail in the last 20 years should give anyone pause, instead of discounting it.
OrteilGenou 1 point a year ago
To be fair, they played a significant part in building American railroads too, so that original point is a bit off to begin with
BrainInABox 8 points a year ago
trains in china are held together by ducktape, rails are unsafe and got build with slave labor :)
Speaking of being blinded by propaganda...
BrainInABox 0 points a year ago
What?
Cowbee 3 points a year ago
China is a Socialist country run by a Communist party, which is why the overwhelming majority of major Communist orgs recognize it as such. The economy is dominated by the public sector, which controls the large majority of key industries and large firms. They aren't fully developed post-scarcity Communist yet, but they are developing through Socialism.
Further, Chinese infrastructure is good. The rails are safe and the trains aren't held together with duct tape, and they aren't made with slave labor. This is just chauvanism.
will_steal_your_username 8 points a year ago
They are not socialist in the slightest. That requires the workers to own the means of production, which they do not.
Edit: To expand on this companies are organized the same way as in capitalism because they are capitalist. Workers at the bottom, management in the middle, and rich capitalists at the top.
Cowbee 0 points a year ago
The overwhelming majority of the large firms and key industries are publicly owned and planned, so yes, the workers do own the means of production for the majority of the economy. Further, managers are workers too, not owners. I think you have a very specific view of Socialism that's exclusionary towards Marxism, for Marxists cooperatives aren't truly "Socialist" as they are petite bourgeois cells that retain private property and exclusive ownership within, when the goal of Marxist Communisn is the eventual abolition of Private Property, which can only be accomplished by folding all property into the hands of all, through public ownership.
will_steal_your_username 7 points a year ago
The workers have no meaningful power or ownership over their workplaces, so it doesn't matter how much is publicly owned. I personally will never accept the marxist redefinition of socialism, nor will I ever accept an authoritarian vanguard state.
I do not want to continue this debate, tankie. It's never productive for anyone.
nandeEbisu 1 point a year ago
The rails are good, but a bit rushed planning wise. Haven't been to China, but the biggest complaints I've heard are more "they stuck a station in a super inconvenient spot so they could show progress on the project"
The trains and track seem to have been well built though.
BrainInABox -2 points a year ago
Source?
Justas 4 points a year ago
Recent Developments in Spain’s High-Speed Rail Network: Technical Overview
Donkter 22 points a year ago
And all the libertarians cry about is how it's not real free markets and that's why we don't have nice trains and public education etc. not understanding that it's government funding and regulations that's just barely keeping everything (pun intended) on the rails in the first place.
InternetCitizen2 27 points a year ago
Libertarians are like house cats. Completely dependent on a system they neither understand nor appreciate and fiercely confident of their own independence.
SpaceScotsman 4 points a year ago
fiercely confident of their own independence
In fairness, if you let the average cat out into nature it would be fine. Dump the average libertarian into nature and they wont last the night.
technocrit 0 points a year ago
When someone's ideology is an imaginary oxymoron, they can say whatever they want.
untakenusername 2 points a year ago
well if the govt didn't push cars so much, there would be more trains
magic_lobster_party 18 points a year ago
It’s more like American car centric culture vs rest of the world.
magic_lobster_party 2 points a year ago
I see Brazil the same way as an artist going on world tour
lemmy12369 17 points a year ago
I’d trade all parking spots for more trains in my city.
caboose2006 17 points a year ago
We should also put "communism" in quotations too.
destructdisc -6 points a year ago
China does have a superb high-speed rail network, you gotta give them that
massive_bereavement 7 points a year ago
Oh, the old "make the trains run on time" has come back in use?
Jokes aside, the CCP push for infrastructure investment in both renewables, public mass transportation is enviable, but also it comes with a cost:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/...
That said, some of our countries might be in a slippery slope towards a similar situation (I mean nearly non-payed labor or debt slavery already exist in some countries).
technocrit 2 points a year ago
I guess Japan and (good) (colonized) Korea
wew that colonizer morality...
infinitesunrise 7 points a year ago
They've been solid for me. I used to take the Acela between NYC and Baltimore all the time. It was faster than flying when comparing door-to-door times, cheaper, no fucking TSA, and it had a bar car. Also took one from Portland to BC recently which was legit.
themadcodger 4 points a year ago
I took the Empire Builder from Seattle to Chicago, and then I forget which through W Va up to Philly. It was a great few days watching the countryside roll by.
technocrit 1 point a year ago
I've had great rides... But the problems are more like underfunding, overpricing, underavailability, etc.
destructdisc 4 points a year ago
In an anti car community. Considering the US proudly proclaims itself the champion of the free market, yeah, it's only fitting to use Amtrak as the example.
destructdisc 1 point a year ago
...the post is intended to portray the difference in trains -- the logical, excellent, and much preferable alternative to cars. They're excellent everywhere else but absolute shite in the supposed pinnacle of the free market.
TheDemonBuer 6 points a year ago
For some reason, people still act like capitalism and socialism (or communism) are mutually exclusive, that an economy must be one or the other. But if you look at essentially every national economy on the planet today, they are all some mix of the socialist mode of production (when the means of production are owned by the government, or a group of workers, or a community) and the capitalist mode of production (when the means of production are owned by a private individual or group of investors, operating for a profit). Almost no economy is exclusively one or the other.
It is true that in most countries with robust high speed rail, there is significant government involvement, like planning and building infrastructure, subsidies, or just providing rail travel as a public service. I definitely think that for a national rail service network to work, you need to do some planning. Here in the US, government and planning are bad words, but clearly they needn't be.
Cowbee 14 points a year ago
Social programs are not Socialism. The government doing stuff is not Socialism. You cannot take aspects of a society out of their context and analyze them discretely. The United States does not have a "Socialist" millitary. Socialism is a mode of production determined by public ownership being the principle aspect of the economy, ie large firms and key industries being firmly public, as opposed to Capitalism where private ownership is the principle aspect.
TheDemonBuer -2 points a year ago
Socialism is a mode of production determined by public ownership
That's what I'm talking about. Essentially every national economy on the planet includes at least some socialist production. I can't think of a single national economy on the Earth where the production of all goods and services is carried out exclusively by privately owned, for-profit firms. Can you?
Cowbee 6 points a year ago
Public Ownership is not Socialism itself, but a component of a Socialist economy. An economy where public ownership controls the large firms and key industries, ie has genuine political control, is Socialist.
No system is purely public or private, hence the line of demarcation between Socialist countries and Capitalist countries is where political power is vested.
TheDemonBuer 0 points a year ago
No system is purely public or private
I know, that's what I've been saying. That's my whole point.
technocrit 7 points a year ago
Socialism and communism are not when the state does stuff.
Socialism/communism is workers owning the means of production. This is exceedingly rare and constantly attacked whenever it exists. Almost every state is overwhelmingly capitalist. That's a primary purpose of the state.
Someonelol 5 points a year ago
Long term rule by a single party dedicated to improving infrastructure would do that. Let's not kid ourselves that the CCP is all sunshine and rainbows though.
demizerone 4 points a year ago
We haVe $100k+ SuVs!
Gsus4 -5 points a year ago
This is easier for China to do because they have high density population centers to connect as rail hubs, which makes the system efficient, cheap and viable, unlike in the US where things are more spread apart...but I have no illusions that in the US anybody would build this even if it was viable.
untakenusername -7 points a year ago
commie propaganda
Im chill with trains, but not with communism
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right right... which part of China is communist again? is it the permanent oligarchy? the reeducation camps? the low-paying factory jobs that make the owner class rich?
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