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It's still a true story...nothing diminishes the significance of this.
by jngreenlee 7y ago
It's still a true story...nothing diminishes the significance of this.
- peteretep 7y agoThe achievement is ... Mao died?
- H8crilA 7y agoAnd probably Deng Xiaoping's re-architecture of China. Still, what caused the advance does not diminish the success of humanity. Progress is progress.
- hutzlibu 7y ago"Progress is progress. " It is? Don't you think, there can also be progress in the wrong direction?
- luckylion 7y agoWouldn't "bad leader dies, next one has better economic policies" make the situation improve by a lot in most poor places?
- imtringued 7y agoYes and this is not exclusive to developing countries either.
- hansjorg 7y agoThe "lifted out of poverty" meme is most often brought up to validate various forms of western imperialism. If most of the lifting has been done by China, which did not yield (did not relinquish control over natural resources, etc.), then that's bunk.
- peteretep 7y agoNah, you threw the baby out with the bath water there; the other East Asian countries that embraced the west became much much richer much much faster after WWII. China just managed to dramatically shit itself from the Great Leap Forward through to the early 90s, and is now undergoing the growth spurt that it’s Eastern neighbours experienced decades previously.
- legulere 7y agoThey are also much smaller. If you compare China to India it didn’t do that badly after all
- Symmetry 7y agoI think that if I had to live through the second half of the 20th century in either place I'd take India's moderate socialism followed by a slight loosening over China's extremes. Even if China is in a better position right this moment, it lost a lot of people getting there.
- selimthegrim 7y agoYou might want to tell the BJP voter base that