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> China shows that you can have a capitalst economy in a (not a real one, but wanting to be) communist country. Wanting to be? I'm afraid that China would neve
by ttflee 13y ago
> China shows that you can have a capitalst economy in a (not a real one, but wanting to be) communist country.
Wanting to be? I'm afraid that China would never want trying again in the current reign. China just has not yet figured out which model of heaven could be used to replace the communist one. It is really a tough job to propose for a egalitarian heaven in an age of quickly increasing rich-poor gap.
- onli 13y agoHm, ok. While I know that the chinese government still tries to define its system as a communist one, it is quite possible that they are simply searching by now. Given you use of the word heaven you probably know that better than me (if my limited chinese is correct). But there are other examples. Take Stalin, under his reign there was a limited (but successful) effort to produce food using a free economy, which he shot down. Which was tragic given the food was needed. But that leads to far. I mainly meant that the existing systems claiming to be communist aren't, and some were able to use the tools of capitalism without becoming a western country, e.g. without becoming an indirect democracy - thus showing that capitalism is an economic model, not more.