Authority exercised by the proletariat through a DotP is qualitatively different than authority exercised by capital through a DoC.
Read the analysis of the Paris commune in "State or Revolution".
I think you're getting hung up on an artificial separation of politics and economics, you should look up a critique of this or investigate why political economy is a useful framework for analysis.
Where is that video of the Chinese cop tearing milk company managers a new one for calling the police in response to workers staging a sit in as part of a labor dispute?
https://www.google.com/search?q=italy+operation+gladio
There are a few academic publications on this in the first page of Google search results
A munch is just a social. People chat and stuff, kinky things don't happen, and it is generally discouraged to use the space for cruising. Different munch dress codes vary from "be very normycore inconspicuous" to "be decent"
What are you talking about have you never heard of ~~emperor~~ Comrade Puyi?
Really good book! A little bit inaccessible in the first two chapters though.
Jokes aside, a good start is to join a socialist org, participate, and start developing yourself politically. I believe cowbee has a good reading list.
But only if you're doing what needs to be done.
Not a dude, please don't "bro" me
Here is another helpful link, on citizen perception of the importance of democracy and whether their government is democratic.
It was founded by a former NATO secretary so it has a pro-western bias.
https://allianceofdemocracies.org/democracy-perception-index
Here is a chart sourced from its its 2024 report. As you can see Chinese people have more faith in democracy and the democratic nature of their government than westerners do.
The whole brainwashing thing is nonsense, as Cowbee pointed out you misread the data on the 11 percent. It seems like you are misreading data to support your preconceived notions.
China is a democracy, even studies by conservative western institutions show Chinese people have higher satisfaction with their government, more belief in the importance of democracy, and more belief in the democratic nature of their government than western European and American citizens do for their own governments.
They have a more comprehensive democracy too. Consultative processes and deliberative processes are enshrined in institutions in a way that they are not within western bourgeois democracies.
I thought the US killed millions, not 100,000s?
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Hopefully Chinese democracy will prevail against western authoritarianism.