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Seems like some people are overly optimistic with when the state should be abolished.

Socialist transition to communism will last for a long time, that's because socialists are not tyrannical bastards like capitalists, and the material conditions required for communism isn't going to be reached in the foreseeable future.

A good timeline to follow is the second centenary goal of China, that is to "build a modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced and harmonious by 2049".

I'm saying this also as a reminder that capitalists will allow anti-capitalist ideology to exist, to a certain degree, because anti-capitalist can mean anything from Marxism to anarchism or worse. More time spent on debating the right path is less time spent on putting theory into practice, which is more time for capitalism to live on.

Division is what capitalists employ to break the unity of the proletariat, which is why they emphasize individualism and demonize collectivism. Capitalists want a monopoly on unity and democracy, a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie rather than the proletariat.

This is not to say that we should all forget the wrongdoings of certain people and groups and join up in fake-unity, but instead hold on to those thoughts, and keep in mind the fundamental enemy that is capitalism.

Shifting the topic from anti-capitalism to anti-"insert gender/race/colour/nationality/other biological/natural-born traits here" is just helping the capitalists.

Capitalists are happy to incite division based on anything, even ideology, this helps to keep the exploited divided and not a threat to their rule, which is what happens if people keep bickering about issues like the ones in question.

Anti-authoritarians have no future, one either supports an existing authority or tries to become a new authority. Everyone can have a say in a democracy, but when it comes down to decision, whether through majority vote or expert opinion or other methods, the decision then becomes authority.

Even if someone claims to hate all forms of authority, this person will become the authority on "hating authority" if a following is gained. That's how anarchists are doomed for failure.

About the picture, old news from Henan, China in Oct 2021: https://english.henan.gov.cn/2021/08-25/2300682.html

Over the past few days, a nucleic acid testing campaign for all residents was started in many regions of China. In the campaign, the medical staff were all facing a difficulty that the thick protective suits are too stuffy for them in such a hot summer.

However, the difficulty abated at the nucleic acid testing site in Changyuan Maternity and Child Health Hospital on August 19, because new-type positive-pressure protective suits, designed by Tuoren Group in Changyuan (a county-level city of Henan province), had been provided for the medical staff there. During the break time, the medical staff could inflate cool air to their protective suits with a special air conditioner to help them feel cooler. Those medical staff in the inflated protective suits looked "fatty" and lovely, while the residents were still worried about them due to their heavy workloads.

Some people like to use pictures from China and pass them off as Japan.

Another angle:

I have no clue either, so I started with the CCAMLR's website, they have all the reports of meetings since 1982. However, the report for the meeting mentioned in the news (June 19-23) isn't available yet.

If you look through the reports from previous years, the relevant information is under the title "Spatial Management">"Review of proposals for new MPAs", or "Marine Protected Areas" for earlier reports. If you want to see what the representatives from each country said, search for "COUNTRY made the following statement".

This is a lot of material to go through, might come back to comment again if I get around to finding out why.

allowing members of the bourgeoisie to hold political power is pretty much the definition of revisionism

I'm also curious as to where this is defined.

Note that out of the 96.7 million CPC members (as of 2021), there are

• 25.9 million farmers/herdsmen/fishermen
• 15.5 million technical personnel
• 10.9 million in management positions
• 7.8 million party/government workers
• 6.6 million skilled workers
• 3.1 million students
• 7.5 million in other professions
• 19.4 million retired personnel

Not saying that private entrepreneurs don't have any voice, but they are a very small minority in both political representation and political power.

The amendment to the constitution of the CPC in 2002 allowed "any advanced element of other social strata" to join the party, this was and still is controversial even among party members.

Private entrepreneurs do not equate to capitalists, though they do attract the same negative sentiments due to capitalistic tendencies. There are national laws and party rules/regulations that prevent both civil servants and party-member leading cadres from holding posts in private enterprises. So private entrepreneurs can join the party, but cannot hold government or party posts unless they stop participating in private businesses.

From Law of the People’s Republic of China on Civil Servants:

Article 59 Civil servants shall abide by disciplinary rules and laws. They shall not commit any of the following acts:

(16) Engaging or participating in for-profit activities and concurrently holding a post in enterprises or other for-profit organizations in violation of relevant regulations;

we should be careful about trusting individual self-proclaimed Marxists

I agree with this, which is why I don't read or quote from them, but their work might be relevant to others which is why they seem popular.

and instead should work more to propagate and organise the material that already exists

marxists.org is a great resource but doesn't actually have Xi Jinping's work on it, or any of the past 3 Chinese leaders for that matter, even though they are available in Chinese and English from official sources. ProleWiki is what this site promotes, though more work is definitely needed.

To be fair, I have no clue to who these people are, I don't read the writings of any non-Chinese marxist besides Marx, Engels, Lenin (and maybe Stalin). I also don't like the idea of linking increased literacy to willingness to learn.

Crowd-sourcing information is not a new idea, that's how humanity has advanced, the internet does make it much easier, and with better translators it'll be even better in future. The main issue is moderation as you mentioned, which goes back to having an authoritative person or group that most people can trust to delegate the tedious work of moderating to.

I want to note that English-speaking people might be comfortable with applying "anti-authority" to everything due to their imperalist environment, but this causes a lack of awareness of socialist authorities that are in power, such as China. That is why it is important to move away from "anti-authority" to anti-capitalism.