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migrendel
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« on: June 22, 2005, 01:52:23 PM »

China's Communism was in a unique category. It was perhaps the purest in all of history, and the most radical. It inspired a series of social changes that transcended the largely economic modifications of Soviet Communism. Mao's sense of self-doubtlessness brought hideous oppression and destruction unto his country, and the idolatry he sought made Chinese Communism disturbingly theistic, but the strength of conviction and determination to change made China a moral inspiration for the Communist world. We could have hoped that Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four could have carried on this tradition, but this was not to be. An epoch had ended, and all one could do was rue for China's fate.

In recent years, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and other cities have become enclaves of the rawest form of capitalism, while the progress in ending poverty in rural China of the Mao era has halted. This discrepancy between bourgeoisie and proletariat would be unacceptable anywhere, but it is one of the sad ironies of globalization that it exists in China. In this sense, China has lost its national soul, and it is Communist no more.
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« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2005, 03:54:10 PM »

technically, yes.  practically, no.

China is still ruled by dictators (although they may not be very evil) and since 1949 it has been declared a Communism and nobody in the government has tried to change that.  However, starting with the responsibility system by Xiaoping and the inevitable globalization, the economy is hardly communist.  Hopefully in time (and not by force of the US) it will become a free country.  (The guy on my sig supports Chinese Democracy)
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« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2005, 07:22:30 AM »


And I wouldn't call Mao's "improvments" successful, he killed more people than Stalin and Hitler combined and kept the people in poverty. I'll stay in the US thank you very much. Smiley
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