Antagonized?
If anything, I am very happy for the Chinese people. China's successes actually validate the Western model and the sudden, ignoble and spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union. It proved that improving the people's welfare, beyond a certain point, is possible only if communists abandon their failed ideology and adopt the capitalist's. Buddy...People, other than monks and their types, do not want to live longer and healthier. We want to live longer, healthier and wealthier. The wealth here is not about keeping up with the Joneses but about making our daily lives easier. No one forces anyone to keep up with the Joneses. They do that from their own compulsions. Between heating up water for tea with fire, why not use the faster microwave? Fire is easy to produce. The 'nuker' is not. But either will do the job just fine.
In order to be bankrupt, the country must have a capitalist economic system. Communist countries can either collapse like the Soviet Union, or quietly changed their errant ways like China and Viet Nam did. So I guess communists can claim a dubious 'victory' of sort.
Are you sure you are happy?
Your statements have belied your claim profoundly.
Before CPC took over China, life expectancy was about 35, literacy was about 15%… Now you comically tell us make life long is a simple thing. But why democratic Indians, and Africans haven’t achieved the simple thing, instead the communist China has? Isn't democracy inferior to communism? (BTW, I apologize to Indian friends here that it is not that I want to drag in India, but India happens to be a convenient example to contrast China.)
Before CPC controls China, corruptive Chinese government couldn’t even protect Vietnam, a then vassal state of China, from the devastation of evil western invaders: the French. That caused a series of misfortunes to the Vietnam people.
Under the CPC leadership, China not only successfully defended itself in Korea War:
the first war that colored people win over the white in modern human history; but also helped the people of Vietnam sustained the atrocities committed by US aggressors and expelled US troops and their running jackals such as you out of Vietnam soil. The Vietnamese finally achieved their true independence they’ve struggled for for generations.
Now go back to genocide/atrocity issues. Communism by far committed much less atrocities than Westerns. Studies show that
Westerners, driven by capitalist greediness, exterminated more than 100,000,000 American Indians during their colonization. This is a truly unprecedented crime at any stage of human history. It is estimated that
billions of innocent people across the world have been killed by the colonists.
The USA shares a lion's share of that murderous deeds. In addition, millions of black slaves were murdered. Today American Indians are within their reservations, still being softly killed by diseases, alcoholism, murders, drugs, government negligence… This rich land of America is their land, but now they are devastated to a near extinction status…
Atrocities committed by mishandling of communism systems look far pale in front of bloody capitalism. Marx well addressed capitalism: since the advent of capitalism into this world, it's “
dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.”, and that “
capital is dead labour which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour”. That is precisely the core nature of capitalism.
Only the rise of communism alarmed then industrialized countries to absorb some communist elements, such as social welfare, etc. as directed by Marx and now implemented in the States:
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
“Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
–Partially implemented in US and totally in some States
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
– completely implemented in US
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
– partially implemented in US
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
– completely implemented in US
5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
– partially implemented in US
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.
– partially implemented in US
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
– partially implemented in US
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
--completely implemented in US
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
– partially implemented in US
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.
--completely implemented in US “
Let me tell you:
USA is more communist than China or Vietnam judged by many communist criteria.
Death toll to reckless capitalism has sounded since the financial storm. It becomes only more pronounced as capitalist Iceland going on bankrupt and capitalist Greek is on verge of bankrupt. Nonetheless, some valuable elements of capitalism will survive just as some valuable elements of communism will do, regardless how the foolhardy would be screaming and yelling,
petulantly.
