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> Can they get away with it if a large percentage of highly educated and well connected people are very strongly opposed to it and can't do their jobs properly?
by OnlineCourage 9y ago
> Can they get away with it if a large percentage of highly educated and well connected people are very strongly opposed to it and can't do their jobs properly?
Well, Mao certainly could during the cultural revolution.
- mikeash 9y agoNot repeating the cultural revolution is one of the top priorities of the Chinese government now.
- cpncrunch 9y ago>Well, Mao certainly could during the cultural revolution. Political conditions were very different during the cultural revolution than they are now.
- vidarh 9y agoLook at GDP graphs for China, and you can see very clearly when the political upheavals ended and business got a stable, predictable regime to deal with (look at GDP graphs in general, and it quickly becomes clear that stability matters much more than the specifics of the economic or political system) The Chinese government has demonstrated very clearly over the last few decades that it is more concerned about maintaining economic growth than about maintaining "ideological purity".