• wewbull@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Do you know how China got such a huge poverty by the 1980s? Do you know how China got the wealth to start impacting it’s poverty?

    Hint: the CCP took power in 1949. The Maoist era ended 30 years later, and massive economic liberalisation reforms started.

    China today is a world trade powerhouse governed by an elite class (The CCP) with the proles given just enough to keep them where they are. It’s lifted them out of poverty, but it is the shining example of a totalitarian capitist state. If anybody thinks the proletariat have power in China, and it is therefore a socialist state…or that it’s classless with no elite and a communist state… well… You need to talk to some Chinese people.

    • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      You need to talk to some Chinese people.

      You mean the Chinese people that overwhelmingly.support the CPC and their government? Ok

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        1 year ago

        Yes, even those ones. I’ve met a few and the stories they tell send shivers down my spine. They think they’re telling me good thing about their country, and I listen respectfully. However, it sounds like being caged in a zoo. The keepers provide your essentials, but you have no freedom.