It was sent to you yesterday! https://hexbear.net/comment/6049942

Apologies for coming off aggressive. Capitalism can not be restrained without a dedicated communist party, like China's. Executing billionaires for defrauding the people is framed as authoritarian overreach but in reality good. Also, the chinese system is not one man, even the head. There are liberals and conservatives (more hardline socialists in the Chinese context), cliques and ingroups, just mostly under the banner of one party. There may be more democracy than you think https://www.cgtn.com/how-china-works/feature/Why-China-s-socialist-democracy-is-the-most-effective-democracy.html https://ash.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/final_policy_brief_7.6.2020.pdf

The above harvard study also explains why there has been poverty and wealth inequality in the PRC after 1990 on page 5. Compare the stories of 2000s and early-mid 2010s with the achievements and goals now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuaJGPZCBYU&t=1s

On the other hand, Scandinavia has already started to roll back whatever social democratic compromises were made during the cold war https://jacobin.com/2024/04/sweden-unions-exploitation-migrant-solidarity, including the social freedoms I believe you mentioned in another comment https://jacobin.com/2024/07/swedish-social-democracy-kjell-ostberg. Without a material basis of prosperity and some wealth redistribution, there is no room for countries who have been colonized to develop social freedoms in the first place. How can a country in africa abolish patriarchal systems of authority without the money to feed its people or defend itself from western backed militants? https://www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2024/10/13/ukrainian-drones-provide-support-for-northern-mali-s-rebels_6729231_124.html. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/8/20/ukraine-is-losing-the-plot-in-africa

Countries like Norway can benefit from their place in an imperialist world order to sell weapons https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/military-weapons/reporter/nor and use their fossil fuel reserves to temporarily create a liberal saudi arabia that crumbles the second a few Syrians migrate from more wars caused by the western world order. Plenty of people have critiques of the Chinese socialist project on hexbear, the influence of the Shanghai clique, the amount of debt they hold in the Global South, @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net / @xiaohongshu2@hexbear.net has made some great posts about finance and economics specifically. But we also hold dearly to the maxim "No investigation, no right to speak"