In its 20th national congress, the Communist Party of China (CPC) pledged to redistribute wealth to reduce inequality, pursue full employment, promote gender equality, expand social security and health care, protect the environment, and fight the
For this it’s good to consider the total picture of China having a hard history up until pretty recently, it being an absolutely massive country with a huge population, its focus on a lot of material conditions of people first, lifting 800 million people out of poverty recently and then the need to move forward.
Just looking at it like: ‘China has inequality, therefore it fails’, would be very much too shortsighted. Also, we do not see China as a perfect country but it’s one of the only countries that is succesfully transitioning towards socialism/communism and therefore it has our critical support.
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Thanks for the explanation! I feel great admiration towards China and the way they’re pushing forwards without relying on exploitation and imperialism. They may have high inequality indices at the moment, but the US has them much higher, and sadly their government couldn’t care less about it…
Honestly, the nature of inequality of Deng is often misinterpreted and it’s frustrating. Inequality wasn’t some “neobourgeoisie” seizing the assets of others; the economic pie increased for everyone but the development itself was lopsided and uneven. Aside from some controlled finance capital imports from spend-happy Westerners (Mao had tried and failed several times to industrialize because a certain Chiang Kai-shek stole all the fucking gold reserves when he fled to Taiwan) surplus extraction mostly did not exist and Maoists like to criticize China because everyone is not exactly equal, even though everyone is far richer than they were and the CPC is working to fix said problem. (https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/socialism-with-chinese-characteristics)
I’ll have to read that. I got my numbers from Big Red Book on China which was made by a pro-CPC expat for other westerners to consume. Not sure if he’s a Maoist but he supports the CPC.
For this it’s good to consider the total picture of China having a hard history up until pretty recently, it being an absolutely massive country with a huge population, its focus on a lot of material conditions of people first, lifting 800 million people out of poverty recently and then the need to move forward.
Just looking at it like: ‘China has inequality, therefore it fails’, would be very much too shortsighted. Also, we do not see China as a perfect country but it’s one of the only countries that is succesfully transitioning towards socialism/communism and therefore it has our critical support.
Feel free to visit here when you have more questions.
Thanks for the explanation! I feel great admiration towards China and the way they’re pushing forwards without relying on exploitation and imperialism. They may have high inequality indices at the moment, but the US has them much higher, and sadly their government couldn’t care less about it…
inequality went up under Deng, but Xi is tackling it head on
Honestly, the nature of inequality of Deng is often misinterpreted and it’s frustrating. Inequality wasn’t some “neobourgeoisie” seizing the assets of others; the economic pie increased for everyone but the development itself was lopsided and uneven. Aside from some controlled finance capital imports from spend-happy Westerners (Mao had tried and failed several times to industrialize because a certain Chiang Kai-shek stole all the fucking gold reserves when he fled to Taiwan) surplus extraction mostly did not exist and Maoists like to criticize China because everyone is not exactly equal, even though everyone is far richer than they were and the CPC is working to fix said problem. (https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/socialism-with-chinese-characteristics)
I’ll have to read that. I got my numbers from Big Red Book on China which was made by a pro-CPC expat for other westerners to consume. Not sure if he’s a Maoist but he supports the CPC.