Im not any thing like an expert on Soviet history but didnt that last for like less than 10 years?
Dentist reforms have lasted like 40 years and are supposed to go on until, what? 2050? So 30 more yet.
Generally speaking, I feel ambivalent about China. The american lib talk about how it's the new Nazi Germany seems to be almost definitely overblown, but the anarchist tendencies in me makes me distrustful of any concentration of power (be that individual, government or corporate).
I know that the plan is that the market based economy is supposed to be replaced with a more socialist one by 2050, but what reason is there to believe that the CCP is actually serious about that and isn't just saying it because it is politically pragmatic? (like I said, Im distrustful of the powerful so this is the first place my mind goes to when I hear some politician make promises)
Everytime I hear the line about how China will be a "modern socialist economy by 2050" it just makes me think of Nikita Khrushchev's 1961 promise that the USSR would have " Communism in 20 years "
Even setting aside the possibility that the ccp might be lying, and assuming they are all totally honest, real life often has a tendency to fuck up even carefully laid plans and 30 years is plenty of time for them to get fucked up.
I mean idk. Like I said I feel ambivalent. Partially because I dont know much and its hard to separate the propaganda and bullshit from the truth
Thats basically the NEP tho
Im not any thing like an expert on Soviet history but didnt that last for like less than 10 years?
Dentist reforms have lasted like 40 years and are supposed to go on until, what? 2050? So 30 more yet.
Generally speaking, I feel ambivalent about China. The american lib talk about how it's the new Nazi Germany seems to be almost definitely overblown, but the anarchist tendencies in me makes me distrustful of any concentration of power (be that individual, government or corporate).
I know that the plan is that the market based economy is supposed to be replaced with a more socialist one by 2050, but what reason is there to believe that the CCP is actually serious about that and isn't just saying it because it is politically pragmatic? (like I said, Im distrustful of the powerful so this is the first place my mind goes to when I hear some politician make promises)
Everytime I hear the line about how China will be a "modern socialist economy by 2050" it just makes me think of Nikita Khrushchev's 1961 promise that the USSR would have " Communism in 20 years "
Even setting aside the possibility that the ccp might be lying, and assuming they are all totally honest, real life often has a tendency to fuck up even carefully laid plans and 30 years is plenty of time for them to get fucked up.
I mean idk. Like I said I feel ambivalent. Partially because I dont know much and its hard to separate the propaganda and bullshit from the truth