Speaker to Animals wrote:The Chinese engage in "capitalism" like the Muslims engage in taqiyya.
The whole thing is a government-run potemkin village. Always was. All the billionaire so-called businessmen are leaders in the communist party. It's not what you guys imagine if all you do is listen to cable news.
Some people did but I didn't imagine it. Hell, I am saying that idea backfired with Xi's announcement.
Raise your hand if you're gobsmacked that China didn't turn out to be a free democratic capitalist regime after all.
GrumpyCatFace wrote:Dumb slut partied too hard and woke up in a weird house. Ran out the door, weeping for her failed life choices, concerned townsfolk notes her appearance and alerted the fuzz.
Penner wrote:
Since when was China ever a democracy? Capitalism can only go so far before the Chinese government will hold back the reigns and as long as the money makers (both foreign and Chinese) are happy, they will gladly accept anything.
Republic does not mean democracy, Penner. China's been a republic since the last emperor was deposed. Which was even before the Communists came to power.
That is beside the point in my opinion because the point that I was trying to make was that the idea that bringing capitalism would've changed China from the inside out (in such a way like making China an open society).
Capitalism is nothing more than a way to organize an economy, not an ideology or a philosophy on how to run a society in general. Private ownership of the means of production never guarenteed all citizens or inhabitants in a state, a free and open society. Capitalism, or state capitalism, has changed China. It's definitely a far richer society in materialistic terms today than it was under Mao.
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