They're dependent on chinese manufacturing precisely because China decided to do a capitalism. That decision came with a huge stack of pros and cons, but it's wrong to suggest that they should have continued being poor and socialist like in the 80s and then waited 50 or so years for the downfall of the US. The liberal reforms are the exact reason that they are so developed today, and the reason the have the US by the balls.
I don't think that it was the only decision they could have made, but an alt-history discussion isn't likely to get us very far cause who the fuck knows what would have happened.
thank you for finally bringing up an interesting point, which the other dude spamming my replies has steadfastly refused to do.
anyway, assuming that your description of the party's mindset is accurate, why are they taking it for granted that its impossible to develop and industrialize under a socialist mode of production, when the USSR proved that isn't ture? that feels like a really convoluted masterplan type of explanation when the simple explanation of "they're doing capitalism because they're capitalists" is sitting right there
I don't have enough information to get a clear picture on your question, still working on finding that out. There is definitely a liberal wing of the CCP, which Deng was obviously a part of. They are not communists through and through. I think it was an excellent strategic decision, since they are in a really good spot now, but in short, I don't think the explanation is very simple.
As to "why not do it like the USSR?" I guess I'd say that they did that for 30 years or so, and didn't get very far.
They're dependent on chinese manufacturing precisely because China decided to do a capitalism. That decision came with a huge stack of pros and cons, but it's wrong to suggest that they should have continued being poor and socialist like in the 80s and then waited 50 or so years for the downfall of the US. The liberal reforms are the exact reason that they are so developed today, and the reason the have the US by the balls.
I don't think that it was the only decision they could have made, but an alt-history discussion isn't likely to get us very far cause who the fuck knows what would have happened.
thank you for finally bringing up an interesting point, which the other dude spamming my replies has steadfastly refused to do.
anyway, assuming that your description of the party's mindset is accurate, why are they taking it for granted that its impossible to develop and industrialize under a socialist mode of production, when the USSR proved that isn't ture? that feels like a really convoluted masterplan type of explanation when the simple explanation of "they're doing capitalism because they're capitalists" is sitting right there
I don't have enough information to get a clear picture on your question, still working on finding that out. There is definitely a liberal wing of the CCP, which Deng was obviously a part of. They are not communists through and through. I think it was an excellent strategic decision, since they are in a really good spot now, but in short, I don't think the explanation is very simple.
As to "why not do it like the USSR?" I guess I'd say that they did that for 30 years or so, and didn't get very far.