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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics had not been tried at that point :)
by jampekka 6mo ago
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics had not been tried at that point :)
- sscaryterry 6mo agoExactly, maybe we've got it all wrong :)
- crimsoneer 6mo agoThe word you're looking for is dictatorship, and it is not new.
- usrnm 6mo agoTo be fair, Deng Xiaoping's reforms were based on the older New Economic Policy or NEP from the 1920s USSR, so it had been tried at that point. It was scrapped in the USSR for other reasons, not because it failed.
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- WarmWash 6mo agoIronically you can map China's progress over the last 30 years directly with their adoption of capitalistic policies. The more capitalistic they become, the more growth they have seen.