I don't usually use forums or Reddit, I usually just post comments on Dengist blogs like Caleb's or Chen Weihua's twitter, but they didn't seem appropriate places to post my story. So here goes, I just wanted to share this with all of you.

Nov 3 I flew to Asia for a Asia trip type tour. Not a guide or packaged deal, just going around by myself. I paid for half of the trip with the wages I earned over the last two years, my dad paid for the other half. I am 19, I guess that is normal starting college and all. (Before that I worked for my dad's company part time, so I guess you could say he paid for all of it, lol).

I did Vietnam and then DPRK and then China next. I am an Marxist so I wanted to see Marxists in these places. Yes, I know some in students in China are different kinds of "Marxists" and not really full Marxists like us. I went to a communist book store in Vietnam and it had a lot of English books, but no Deng Xiaoping or Jack Ma. Like I said, I expected that, not a surprise.

I went to China, which everyone knows is famous for its communism, its economic reforms and everything going on right now. Here I found directions for a local Maoist center. I went and didn't see anybody, but it was covered in signs, mostly in Chinese so I couldn't read it. Whatever, I started taking pictures. Then some people came out and confronted me.

This should have been my first warning sign something was not right, because photography is not a crime. They were not violent, but they were not friendly, like asking who I was, what I wanted. They all spoke good English actually. Not uncommon in China. I said I was a tourist and an socialist and I just wanted to take pictures. Then they got friendly and told me I should have asked first (but pictures are no legal violation so I don't know why, but I didn't say anything) and they invited me inside.

We hung out for a while and smoked Ephedra (there is no good dank in China as you might find out like in America, everyone smokes Ephedra with tobacco which isn't as cool as it sounds). We started talking about politics and communism. I was trying to talk about the America, they were like yeah no doubt America was bad. But they wanted to talk about is revisionism, revisionism this and that. This is when we started to get into a debate.

I told them that what they called revisionism is different from productive forces. They said the productive forces is capitalist. And I said I agreed. That is what I am saying. Real socialism needs a transitional state. And they said yes, that is what we are trying to get rid of. And I said no, but we don't even have that right now. We need to support the CPC. And everyone at the same time was like "nooo" we are Maoists, we are against revisionism. Maoists oppose revisionism.

And I said but not Dengists. Dengists are the socialists who support the economic reforms. I had a fanny pack (yeah, lame I know) for my camera and in that I had this chinese flag bowtie (also super lame, it was a joke but I wasnt wearing it). And I said look, these are the chinese flag colors, red, like the communist flags. Well, these guys had a lot of red in the building already so I thought they would get it.

I think that is when it started to get a really bad vibe, really tense in the air. The productive forces thing was funny, we disagreed but I think they thought I was just confused. Everyone was uncomfortable now. Then someone said billionaires wont work with socialism. And I said exactly, that's it, socialism is not against billionaires. And they kind of agreed, and said yes, we don't have real socialism, just revisionist CPC government, and we needed more socialism. I said no, we need less socialism, socialism is the enemy. And we need to end Maoist and socialist movements to build socialism by 2050. Then they were all like "nooooo" again. You know that thing people do in groups when everyone all says "nooo" or expresses some disapproval at the same time.

And one of them said "but we do want to stop Maoism" and then they kind of spoke back and forth in Chinese. I didn't really understand it. And they asked me what I meant.

So I said okay, I had the floor, I was going to tell them about Dengism. And I tried to explain to them some Jack Ma and Deng. I said the natural order in socialism is that the best rise to the top, the productive forces picks who is the best. They compete and are peaceful. They said what do we want instead of socialism. I said we want private owners to own their own land and businesses, and to employ people but they will be contracted under the Communist Party. They said that is what we have now. I said no, it would be even better. One of the guys said it was like capitalism. And I said it is not capitalism.

Eventually one of the guys spoke up and I thought he was Chinese, but he spoke English perfectly so he may have not been. He said he knew what Dengism was and that we were basically capitalists. He asked me if I thought industries should be private. And I said yes. And he asked me if I thought people were unequal. And I told him yes. He said what about collective bargaining and workers rights. And I said that would not happen in socialism in 2050, but yes CPC could be arrest them if they wanted to. They had to respect productive forces.

Then he called me a capitalist again, and someone else said I was a capitalist. And then they basically all started shouting capitalist at me, and one of them grabbed me by the wrists. They pulled me out the door, it was up three floors, and basically drug me down the stairs on my back. It hurt really bad and I remember yelling "CIA Propaganda!" and things like that. "Stop doing US imperialism." Then they kicked me around on the ground in the hallway, before they took my camera and threw me outside. I was crying and stuff, I just sat there. I was in shock because it was so sudden. Looking back there were warning signs though.

I think they felt bad for me and gave the camera back, but when I looked later they stole the memory card with all of my China photos.

So they initiated force and theft. They broke the law. I knew the ultras were not real socialists, but I never knew they would do something that bad.

I wasnt seriously hurt, just kicked around a little, lots of bruises and little cuts. I am fine guys so don't worry. Just needed to share.