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They were categorized as front-line workers and farmers' representatives, not as though the remainder were capitalists. Administration is not a class in and of itself, the state is the extension of the ruling class in society, its political force. In China, they have direct elections for local representatives, which elect further "rungs," laddering to the top. The top then has mass polling and opinion gathering. This combination of top-down and bottom-up democracy ensures effective results. For more on this, see Professor Roland Boer's Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance.
I believe I asked a very direct question, not asked for an excuse.
For someone claiming I'm not engaging with what you write you seem to be doing that a lot of?
I didn't give you an excuse, I refuted your point.
I mean if you believe that a government not made from workers representatives is - or can be - good for the workers right, socialistic and shit, you should change your instance, because Marx would kick your ass. I don't know about Lenin.
Actually I think I can now call you a class traitor.
The NPC is made up of representatives of the working classes. Administration is not a distinct class, but a subsection of classes. Just like there are bourgeois administrators there are proletarian administrators, the same applies to intellectuals. Marx wouldn't kick my ass, he'd see that I'm correct here, same as Lenin.
:D are tou sure about it?
Have you perchance ever read anything by Marx, my sweet Marxists? Or talked about bureaucracy with communists not from China?
Since you didn't, in marxist theory state bureaucracy is distinctly never a part of working class. Iirc the quote, it's always "appalling parasitic body".
And honestly, thinking that administrations are worker class... Like damn.
Unless you claim tautology?
NPC not made from working class representatives is socialist, because China is socialist. China is socialist because it's ruled by socialist government, although not made from working class representatives?
(Before talking to you I honestly thought this duck looks less like capitalistic duck).
I've read Marx, quite a lot, actually.
He was talking about the French state. You're actually taking a metaphysical approach to Marx, not a dialectical one, by trying to abstract points away from the necessary context they exist in.
Classes are social relations to production and distribution. When production is collectivized and owned by all, it still needs managers, what Engels refers to as the "administration of things." Further still, between capitalism and communism there is the transition from one to the other, that is still heavily made up of elements of the old as elements of the new grow and overtake it.
This is basic dialectics.