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[Redalgo]

Most political spectra in circulation only really apply well to developed Western democracies. In the PRC everything is flipped on its head. Just as in the Russian Federation, people who have "conservative" attitudes tend to be socialist or communist whereas the "liberal" people tend to fancy liberal democracy or at least a shift away from state dominance over the economy. The CPC has internal divides - there are correspondingly "right" and "left" factions within the party that seem backwards from what we are accustomed to.

It is comparing apples to oranges, but I would venture at least in terms of political-economy China does not have a far left government. It never really even had a workers' democracy in the first place, the means of production are not collectively owned, and policies are mixed to the extent that the PRC is not truly socialist. China is still left of centre in some respects, and the current government could be considered successful using certain metrics... still, this would be a pretty tenuous, debatable stretch. So ends my muddled over-analysis of the trollage. O.o

As for Blair, I consider him a centrist like other Third Way types. From what little I know about British government it also seems Labour is not nearly so left-leaning as it once was. I lack sufficient knowledge about the government to rate its alignment or degree of success.

[Redalgo]

Yeah,and our economy would have probably collapsed like Argentina's by now

You mean it's possible to be any worse?

Look at it this way: at least it isn't the DR Congo. ^^