I mean, he's cracked down on some of the liberal left-wing more than I'd like, his dad was kind of a Lib and his siblings are capitalist assholes, but Xi seems to have avoided that pretty well and he's clearly competent and ideologically committed to Socialism.
I'm cautiously optimistic, provided he doesn't lean on the Princelings or the Nationalists/Neo-Confucians too much and continues his "accumulate using corps, then nationalise" plan.
Guy's gonna be dead within one or two decades. Optimism for China's future must come from its system and world relations, not one dude. Not that you were saying that (you said mostly the opposite).
Absolutely. Material conditions underly everything. And the masses dictate the options of their leaders
But sometimes I feel we forget the first part of "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please".
We have meaningful individual and collective agency, and even "great men" still exist, even if they nudge history onto one of a limited set of options, rather than drive history forwards.
What Xi does matters, even if he camt flip a switch and declare FALGSC.
I mean, he's cracked down on some of the liberal left-wing more than I'd like, his dad was kind of a Lib and his siblings are capitalist assholes, but Xi seems to have avoided that pretty well and he's clearly competent and ideologically committed to Socialism.
I'm cautiously optimistic, provided he doesn't lean on the Princelings or the Nationalists/Neo-Confucians too much and continues his "accumulate using corps, then nationalise" plan.
Guy's gonna be dead within one or two decades. Optimism for China's future must come from its system and world relations, not one dude. Not that you were saying that (you said mostly the opposite).
Absolutely. Material conditions underly everything. And the masses dictate the options of their leaders
But sometimes I feel we forget the first part of "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please".
We have meaningful individual and collective agency, and even "great men" still exist, even if they nudge history onto one of a limited set of options, rather than drive history forwards.
What Xi does matters, even if he camt flip a switch and declare FALGSC.
100% agree!
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