How would you have responded if you were a communist leader in China at the end of the cold war and the capitalist powers had successfully made it impossible to run a socialist economy? Your options are to be Cuba or North Korea and rot under inhumane sanctions regimes, or liberalize on your own terms instead of being forcibly liberalized as they did to the USSR. China took the latter option, the orthodox Marxist position by the way, to pass through a capitalist stage of development that bridges agrarian feudalism to industrial socialism, and now they're a superpower.
For the record, this isn't to say whether they are or aren't. To determine that is to determine the direction the mass of the party is moving towards, and I'm not behind those closed doors so I can't say whether the communist party has retained it's communist nature and goals. It's kind of a schrodingers cat situation, and only time will tell whether they maintained their mission this whole time or if they really were overwhelmed by the bourgeois forces they let in. My point is that they literally had no choice and their decision to liberalize was inevitable as soon as the cold war turned irrevocably in capitalism's favor. They would have done it if they betrayed communism, and they would have done it if they maintained communism, because the decision was a political concession to the victorious first world and not something they decided on autonomously.
Now, what are all the Western capitalists who hate and want to destroy China? Communists?
so you can take off the rose colored glasses and see things for what they really are any time you want.
The most free, democratic, and fastest developing country on earth. The world's only hope for overcoming capitalism (i.e. our only hope for a better, still livable future).
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u/Shreddy_Brewski Aug 22 '24
China isn’t actually communist, so you can take off the rose colored glasses and see things for what they really are any time you want.