• wewbull@feddit.uk
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    11 months ago

    Do you know how China got such a huge poverty by the 1980s? Do you know how China got the wealth to start impacting it's poverty?

    Hint: the CCP took power in 1949. The Maoist era ended 30 years later, and massive economic liberalisation reforms started.

    China today is a world trade powerhouse governed by an elite class (The CCP) with the proles given just enough to keep them where they are. It's lifted them out of poverty, but it is the shining example of a totalitarian capitist state. If anybody thinks the proletariat have power in China, and it is therefore a socialist state...or that it's classless with no elite and a communist state... well... You need to talk to some Chinese people.

    • Egon [they/them]
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      11 months ago

      You need to talk to some Chinese people.

      You mean the Chinese people that overwhelmingly.support the CPC and their government? Ok

        • Egon [they/them]
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          11 months ago

          Funny, that's how I feel whenever I hear yanks talk about life in the us. Sounds like a hellscape.
          I've only ever met Chinese people that seemed happy about the place.

          • wewbull@feddit.uk
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            11 months ago

            ...being treated like animals by their government, rather than the humans they are.

            • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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              11 months ago

              "Chinese people mostly like being treated like animals by their government"