Lao foreign minister: Laos and China are socialist comrades and brothers
Lao foreign minister: Laos and China are socialist comrades and brothers
Foreign Minister of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (LPDR) Thongsavanh Phomvihane met in Beijing on March 13 with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, becoming the first foreign minister to visit China since the country’s recent parliamentary ‘two sessions’. Wang Yi said, since the establishment of...
Know not much about Laos, but as China does nothing against the chains of the workers, it is a poor example of socialism.
That's a really long winded way to say you don't know much about Laos or China.
Is modern China better than previous, feudal China? Yes, by far. Has it been anticapitalist / antifascist? In the beginning for sure, by now it's state-capitalism. Has it been a proletariat-controlled society? No.
Which one of these three aspects is most important for the qualification of socialism to you?
To my perception, instead of a bourgeoisie controlling the means of production, it is the non-working party members who (indirectly) control the means of production. The only difference being a party badge.