Socialism is a mode of production and distribution where public ownership is the principal aspect of the economy, and the working classes control the state. The latter was decided in 1949 with the completion of the revolution.
I’m sorry comrade they must have forgotten to invite me to this meeting. Glad you made it and can now report to us!
Jokes aside, how is this different than than a large public sector? Is Belgium only singled out because it doesn’t have a “proletarian” gouvernment? You have not definied what that even is. Just because his party doesn’t call itself Belgian Workers Party or something like that is Bart De Wever less proletarian than Xi Jinping or Li Keqiang? His parents were shop owners and railway workers. Xi and Li are both high ranking bureaucrats who are the children of other high ranking bureaucrats. Not one of them, nor their parents for that matter, were democratically elected.
If socialism is indeed as you say large public involvement in the economy and the working classes controlling the state Belgium is far more socialist than the PRC. They even have trade unions, so direct worker representation with considerable political power which China does not have. China has one trade union for everyone and it’s part of/controlled by the gouvernment. You don’t have to be a genius or even a socialist to come to the conclusion that this is a bad idea.
The CPC is overwhelmingly proletarian.
It’s so proletarian it’s largely made up of chinese buisnessmen like Jacky Ma.
Using China as an example for socialism is either very far removed from reality or cynical.
The manifesto of the communist party is not a huge theoretical foundational text. E: It’s a pamphlet similar to the programs of political parties nowadys. It’s like 20 pages, not really for deep study.
If you’re interested in marxist theory I would suggest reading modern Marxists like Slavoj Žižek. It’s much more useful than reading actual marxist theory which is pretty dry and whose ideas have been adopted by various disciplines such as economics, history and philosophy already so they might not be as new and interesting as they were in the 19th century.
Maybe something like “Democracy in What State?” from 2011, you can just search for it on AA.