Xi Jingping

[4thInter]

Is Xi Jingping good for communist china? Could he kill the capitalism that's seeped into the country?

[Wonton Carter]

In a word: no.

He was elected by the Communist Party, which is controlled by (gasp!) capitalists. These capitalists would like to keep accumulating wealth, so they elected a person who will do just that.

Also, it's Jinping, not Jingping.

[4thInter]

In a word: no.

He was elected by the Communist Party, which is controlled by (gasp!) capitalists. These capitalists would like to keep accumulating wealth, so they elected a person who will do just that.

Also, it's Jinping, not Jingping.

So basically a bureaucratic plutocracy.

[Wonton Carter]

Basically, yes. The President anymore is the General Secretary, and the GS is voted in by the Central Committee, and the CC is elected by the National Congress, which (IIRC) consists of delegates. The CC and delegates are basically all rich folk.

[RedHal]

serious thread? lol

[Red Commissar]

Xi Jinping comes from the same cut that his predecessor Hu Jintao came from so no, he won't "kill" the capitalism. To the contrary, Xi's policies include among other things a continuation of market reforms to make China more competitive abroad. Like other countries, they've been acknowledging inequality is a problem but ultimately it's only talk and lip service to reduce it.

The fact that someone like Bo Xilai was portrayed as a radical and ugly remnant of the past due to his populist views (regardless of his true policies or ambitions) and so thoroughly destroyed should say enough about the political direction the CPC is heading towards and defending.

[tuwix]

Is Xi Jingping good for communist china?


First of all, China isn't communist and never was from the times of primitive communism




Could he kill the capitalism that's seeped into the country?

No. He is one of the greatest beneficiaries of Chinese state capitalism. Why should he kill something that gives him so many profit?

[Prometeo liberado]

Capitalism didn't "seep" into China. It's had a standing invitation for years.

[ashtonh]

Hey bolshevik sickle long time no see eh. Really though isnt it suspicious that this question asked by a "trotskyist" who generally dislike mao or any chinese communist system which the chinese communist party is based off of. Sorry bol but your question is easy to show your true identity.

[BolshevikBabe]

At this point, the state/monopoly capitalism (arguably there's heavy elements of both, although I'd still lean towards state capitalism at this point) that characterizes and dominates the Chinese social formation is probably irreversible without another revolution. The CCP has been dominated by rightist elements for most of its history - indeed, even during the Maoist period, it was only Mao and his allies that were able to prevent them wielding the greater influence, and the line struggle that resulted from that largely characterized the Cultural Revolution. More or less the last vestiges of the dictatorship of the proletariat were removed by Zemin and the Theory of Three Represents, which openly let class enemies of the proletariat join the CCP and thus dominate it, but in reality it died under Deng. The CCP may justify its policies through Marxism, but it's only through a very crass and revisionist productive-forces economism & humanism that is indistinguishable from bourgeois ideology much of the time.