More languages
More actions
The proletarian encyclopedia
Find it on ProleWiki / (or highlight any text and press ctrl+k)
Marxism 101
Guide to organizing
Politics
Parties
History
Countries
Philosophy
Economics
People
Imperialism
LGBT+
Current events
Pages
Comrades
25 February
1956
- Nikita Khrushchev denounces Joseph Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in an address commonly known as the Secret Speech.
Eternal President Kim Il Sung 김일성 | |
|---|---|
 Portrait of comrade Kim Il Sung | |
| Born | Kim Seong Ju 1912 April 15 Pyongyang, Japanese-occupied Korea |
| Died | 1994 July 8 North Pyangan Province, Korea |
| Nationality | Korean |
| Political orientation | Juche Marxism–Leninism Anti-imperialism |
| Political party | Workers' Party of Korea |
Kim Il Sung (1912 April 15 – 1994 July 8) was a Korean freedom fighter and communist leader. He served as the founder and only president of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and was the grandfather of Kim Jong-un, the current head of state of the DPRK. His ideology would later develop into the Juche idea.
- June 2025
We have released a Sepia color mode for your reading comfort. Find out how to enable it here!
- February 2025
The 2025 survey results are in! Read them here.
- October 2024
ProleWiki has a brand new homepage! Read our release here.
- 01 March 2024
You can now download our pages as PDF or EPUB books! To do so, open the main menu and click "Create a book" at the far end of it. Then follow the instructions. You can add several different pages to a book, and then download it all as one file. We hope you enjoy this new feature!
Why China is not Capitalist
by GojiraTheWumao
Published: 2023-03-14 (last update: 2026-02-25)
165-250 minutes
This essay demonstrates the historical context, ideological origins and justifiactions of China's economic model, known as the "Socialist Market Economy." I will also go into the specific mechanisms of the Socialist Market Economy itself, and how it contradicts "Capitalist logic", while simultaneously maintaining the dominant position of Public Ownership. And how the Socialist Market Economy/People's Republic of China continues to provide and improve the material quality of the life of the average Chinese person.
Read more
Last 7 days (Top 10) |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||