Before the cult 1999 film began streaming in China, censors drastically changed the ending so that the anarchist narrator is caught and punished for his crimes.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics. The people's revolution was hijacked onto the capitalist road. Mao warned against it, Deng ignored the warning.
Don't mistake that for the ultimate goal, though. It's just a means to an end. Something like half the Chinese economy is still directly owned by the state.
It also serves the dual purpose of building productive forces and protecting the revolution from American interference. Think of it like Molotov-Ribbentrop, in a vacuum it looks like appeasement, but put in context it provided breathing room to build military capacity, and was absolutely necessary.
Until Xi, the rhetoric around China was much less aggressive, both from states and regular people. The west thought they had won, China was a source of cheap labor, no longer a threat, but an asset. They took the capitalists money, and then they killed him. :zizek-joy:
Yes. It might not have happened as soon, but it would have happened.
The Nazis were out for Slavic blood from the get-go. They had no intention of keeping the pact for long, and Stalin and the CPSU understood this very well.
There is a difference between having a market and being capitalist. Obviously they have to have markets to interact with tbr capitlaist world. But they used those markets to gain power for the government. When they are not useful they are ignored. See videogames and education lately. So Obviously they are doing "ism" part of capitlaism.
The hard line views economic activity as the econinc arm of the army. And as it has done a great deal to destory american power you'd be hard pressed to find fault in their logic. They did seized the means of production and are now using them to improve the lives of the workers rapidly.
They did have liberals, and thus corruption, but they seem to have it well under control.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics. The people's revolution was hijacked onto the capitalist road. Mao warned against it, Deng ignored the warning.
Don't mistake that for the ultimate goal, though. It's just a means to an end. Something like half the Chinese economy is still directly owned by the state.
It also serves the dual purpose of building productive forces and protecting the revolution from American interference. Think of it like Molotov-Ribbentrop, in a vacuum it looks like appeasement, but put in context it provided breathing room to build military capacity, and was absolutely necessary.
Until Xi, the rhetoric around China was much less aggressive, both from states and regular people. The west thought they had won, China was a source of cheap labor, no longer a threat, but an asset. They took the capitalists money, and then they killed him. :zizek-joy:
Do you think Germany would’ve invaded Poland if it weren’t for Molotov Ribbentrop?
Yes. It might not have happened as soon, but it would have happened.
The Nazis were out for Slavic blood from the get-go. They had no intention of keeping the pact for long, and Stalin and the CPSU understood this very well.
They weren't looking west for their "lebensraum".
There is a difference between having a market and being capitalist. Obviously they have to have markets to interact with tbr capitlaist world. But they used those markets to gain power for the government. When they are not useful they are ignored. See videogames and education lately. So Obviously they are doing "ism" part of capitlaism.
The hard line views economic activity as the econinc arm of the army. And as it has done a great deal to destory american power you'd be hard pressed to find fault in their logic. They did seized the means of production and are now using them to improve the lives of the workers rapidly.
They did have liberals, and thus corruption, but they seem to have it well under control.
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