[] - 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/TagierBawbagier - originally from r/GenZhouOthers will have critiqued what he said better. What stood out to me is that he appears to neglect the importance of China’s place in a global context. From an anti-imperialist view and as a fellow superpower of a multi-polar world.
Clearly his opinion that China is socdem is solely an incorrect perspective of it’s domestic policies/investment in the economy etc. But that’s not the entire story.
The links here look good, https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/s7favk/comment/hta10ka/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
I’d also check out Prof Wolff who has interesting historical analyses.