Where the Top 1% of Chinese People Buy Their Groceries

[TaiShang]

I meant that trying to show a Western ideology (Socialism) as a Chinese invention is bound to fail. My bad. However, this does not change the fact that the current Chinese system has major weaknesses. Of course, the liberal societies in the Western world have big internal issues as well. Personally, I prefer a system with elements of both systems.

Actually there was Marxism before Marx theorized about it. It is an ideology as old as human history. Before Marx knew it, China was a collectivist society and is still very much so.

Collective enterprises and farming are not rarity in China.

I do not think you can see this kind of thing anywhere else. This is China's millennium old collectivism, which is one of the basics of socialist economic ideology.

Besides, a state cannot really be Marxist to the core, practically impossible, because Marxism eventually predicts the withering away of the state.

I do not see the Chinese state, collecting this year nearly 2 trillion USD revenue and with nuclear triad, getting weaker.

So, it happens that the New China needed to name a system for itself during its inception from a civil war and, the West being the prime actors at that time that shaped and impacted history, there was little other option but choose a modern Western ideology as a title while the ingredients have always been essentially Chinese. Hence the core reason for Sino-Russo split in the mid-1960s. China even did not follow the lead of the de facto leader of the Communist Bloc.

In this respect, what the New China inherited from its millennial civilizational past was way different (richer) from what the New Turkey inherited from the Ottomans in the 1920s.

 

[StarCraft_ZT]

They want to be the head of Islamc Middle East, but nobody gives a damn.

I’ve heard there are millions of in Germany?
@Götterdämmerung

Dreams always come true only in their wet dreams. When my fellow colleagues planning to schedule a trip overseas, I saw one of their options is Turk, I strongly suggest them not go there, because it's dangerous and anti Chinese by interference in Xinjiang affairs. Now they are going to Cambodia.