Originally posted by
[email protected] 7 2004, 04:59 PM
So China is adopting some Rigthist ideas. That makes it a Capitalist? If I was 25% Black and 75% White, does it make me a full Black?
China is just trying to beat America at their own game now. After the game is over, you will see it lean back more to the left. China maybe borrowing some ideas from the Right; nonetheless, it is still on the left side.
I see it as China is borrowing ideas from the Right to rival with America and surpass them; make them collapse or degrade them at least. As long as America remains dominant, the Left World would not last long. Once America falls, China will resume position.
North Korea is more left than China. I do not see it making any progress. The "Dear Leader" is starving his people to feed his military to prepare for the next war and solve all the problems after a united Communist Korea triumphs. That could happen, but it is likely North Korea would collapse first since a WW3 is not likely to be happening soon.
Cuba is too opening its doors wider. It is asking for foreign investments.
There is no such thing as pure Communism just as there is no such thing as pure Capitalism.
You are right, but the stage is not temporary. If you read the various works of leaders like Deng Xiaoping or Hu Jintao they talk about revising Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong thought, how times have changed etc. They call the current economic stage socialism. They say that if China was a capitalist society then perhaps 10% of the population would be very rich and the rest would be poor. But, that China will make all its citisens similarly wealthy, this is clearly not the case. In China there are many poor people who are very poor because the state has made them unemployed. There are also a very small percentage of very rich. The party itself has deviated from the Maoist line, it is full of factions, who are all revisionist.
The fact is that China has completely changed its ideas, it calls the gang of four traitors, in reality they were in close collusion with Mao. Deng Xiaoping and those who inherited his ideas are the traitors. The currenty economic stage is not like the NEP. You can say that this economic development will benefit the country, however the same kind of growth was being achieved under Mao. The DPRK was outstripping South Korea in the 70s, its problems are not with it possessing a socialist economy. If you are a socialist you will not criticise the ability of a socialist style economy.
Chinese say they are ushering in a new era, and they all have right-wing ideas about this new era.