tbh i dont think bureaucratization is irriversable in China like it was in post Andropov USSR nor nearly as gerontocracized and monolithic. At least it hasnt expanded its scope and corruption in the Xi years (the opposite really) and there is progressively more focus given in local party grassroot actions. Not any revolutionary shift but enough to keep things more balanced for now. And even if its not gonna end in communism probably its overtaking of the US globaly opens the doors for other projects to try and do so in their own ways without them getting invaded/couped and destroyed by the dominant power. Also inside China itself, its much more likely for avid communists and wings of the party like that to gain significant influence and change the course of the party and country towards the left than it is for that to happen in western liberal democratic systems so you never know. Xi's administration was a non radical but noticable step towards the right direction, maybe the next one is even more so if Xi plays his cards and influence and party running right ,it may as well slip back into more neolib revisionism
Oh, definitely. And then there's the more-obvious benefits - the resilience to western external pressures, the near-elimination of poverty, the huge boom in infrastructure development and accompanying economic improvements, the leaps in science and technology - that echo the USSR's heyday.
Setting aside the politics, China Good. But is it Marxist? I don't know. I think that's going to be something only time will tell.
A related, and maybe more interesting question is: "Could a committed Marxist come to power in China?" Whatever one thinks of China today, is there a path from here to a good end state that wouldn't require revolutionary change?
I think the answer is yes, and that by itself is a huge improvement on most countries.
tbh i dont think bureaucratization is irriversable in China like it was in post Andropov USSR nor nearly as gerontocracized and monolithic. At least it hasnt expanded its scope and corruption in the Xi years (the opposite really) and there is progressively more focus given in local party grassroot actions. Not any revolutionary shift but enough to keep things more balanced for now. And even if its not gonna end in communism probably its overtaking of the US globaly opens the doors for other projects to try and do so in their own ways without them getting invaded/couped and destroyed by the dominant power. Also inside China itself, its much more likely for avid communists and wings of the party like that to gain significant influence and change the course of the party and country towards the left than it is for that to happen in western liberal democratic systems so you never know. Xi's administration was a non radical but noticable step towards the right direction, maybe the next one is even more so if Xi plays his cards and influence and party running right ,it may as well slip back into more neolib revisionism
Oh, definitely. And then there's the more-obvious benefits - the resilience to western external pressures, the near-elimination of poverty, the huge boom in infrastructure development and accompanying economic improvements, the leaps in science and technology - that echo the USSR's heyday.
Setting aside the politics, China Good. But is it Marxist? I don't know. I think that's going to be something only time will tell.
A related, and maybe more interesting question is: "Could a committed Marxist come to power in China?" Whatever one thinks of China today, is there a path from here to a good end state that wouldn't require revolutionary change?
I think the answer is yes, and that by itself is a huge improvement on most countries.
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That's true enough.
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China surpassing the US under Xi would be a huge boon for his wing of the party and a blow to the right wing.