[deleted] - originally from r/GenZhou
A communist friend of mine recently told me that in china the CPC and government don’t have that much power, and that the ruling class is basically the capitalists. He concludes that he thinks the most likely path china is on is ‘technocratic social democracy’. He doesn’t rule out the possibility of them becoming “”“fully socialist”“” but he thinks the party and government really need to step up their game for this to ever happen. Thoughts on this? I really don’t know what to think, since my impression previously was that the party and govt. had a pretty tight hold on the country and economy.
Edit: I showed him this post and he said “I don’t give an ounce of a fuck about ppl on reddit. I have no time for a website dedicated to trying to suck one’s own cock.” LOL
u/dornish1919 - originally from r/GenZhouWhile I liked what the USSR did, it wasn’t perfect, as many countries weren’t ready for revolution due to geopolitical, cultural and historical differences. Afghanistan comes to mind, a large majority of the people who lived in the rural areas of the country were more conservative and wanted to maintain a theocracy, but those who lived in the cities were split between ML’s and Maoists. Of course, the USSR stepped reluctantly considering it a border dispute, and thus began a long campaign with mixed results. Hell, even after the Saur revolution, there was still a lot of infighting concerning how to move forward. Maoists wanted to develop the country first while MLs wanted to apply a more Soviet model. It was really a mess and I think an example of the Brezhnev Doctrine not working out the way it should have. PRC also did some nasty things during that time, too.