• PhaseFour [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It did damage to the socialist economic base in China.

      In contrast, the communist party has significantly more legitimacy and popularity among the people than it had in 1976.

        • PhaseFour [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Maybe.

          Every class in China - the peasants, the national bourgeoisie, the proletariat - were all suffering from the economic blockade and imperialism. China's decision to develop their economic base through economic cooperation has benefited every national class.

          You will be hard-pressed to find people in today's China clamoring for the conditions of 1976. This is much different than the former Soviet states, where the vast majority of people preferred life in the USSR.

          As China becomes independent from imperialism, which is happening now, the internal contradictions will start to play out.