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>That's right, that terribly communist government suppressing its people and free speech, is actually responsible for lifting 500 million people out of poverty
by tsotha 11y ago
>That's right, that terribly communist government suppressing its people and free speech, is actually responsible for lifting 500 million people out of poverty over the last 30 years.
There isn't anything recognizably communist about the Chinese system aside from the name. And the big spurt of growth didn't start until Deng's market-based reforms of the '70s.
So a better way to put it would be "After its Marxist fantasy economics resulted in the starvation of more than forty million Chinese people, the government wisely switched to capitalism, which lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty."
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoThat unrecognisably non-communist system still has huge elements of central planning, government control, censorship, and price fixing. It's hardly a free market paradise. If you want a free market paradise with minimal government, try Somalia. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4017147.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4017147.stm
- orblivion 11y agoAs long as you cite the BBC's take on Somalia you might as well give it a fair shake: * http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12278628 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12278628 * http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12285365 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12285365
- tsotha 11y agoSocialists seem to reliably confuse free markets and anarchy. Somalia isn't in any way a free market economy.
- orangecat 11y agoSomalia is to free markets as North Korea is to government regulation.
- mazerackham 11y agoYou're right, China is only communist in name, not in practice for some time now. I emphasized the word only to point out how we treat anything associated with communism as something to be burned at the stake.
- blumkvist 11y agoAnything associated with communism should be burned at stake. The sooner the better. God bless the Chinese for figuring it out and transitioning out of that retched system.