I’m told by Liberals that China is capitalist so it doesn’t count as a socialist success story. But never concretely the reasons for why the West doesn’t simply adopt China’s economic model. Given how well it’s been going for China, you’d think countries that already have le productive forces would try to build on it themselves.

:thinkin-lenin:

Maoists at least have principled responses to articulate their dislike of modern China, particularly since we don’t know what pre-Deng China would look like today. But we’ve seen what neoliberal capitalism looks like.