While there are dangers to bad top-down management, the criticisms laid out in this thread can still apply to the CPC and Chinese mainland society today, but th

While there are dangers to bad top-down management, the criticisms laid out in this thread can still apply to the CPC and Chinese mainland society today, but they don't suffer from famines on the same level anymore. I don't think they disagree with the goal and intent of rapidly industrializing China from peasant-based into urban workers. They will still uphold Mao's legacy even if they disagreed with his excesses and failures. They are about economic development because it is a required stage for their goal of achieving socialism and communism. Economic development is their longterm planning and "working science."