• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Power and wealth control governments … every government.

    Once humanity figures out how to provide more equitable power and wealth to every person everywhere, then we might be able to evolve beyond jungle rules.

    In the meantime, it doesn’t matter what you want to call it … communism, socialism, capitalism, liberalism, whatever … as long as we allow unlimited wealth and power to flow to small groups of people, any system will always end up with the same results.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      4 months ago

      Inequality absolutely needs to be eliminated to have a truly equitable society. That said though, it’s pretty clear that China does have a dictatorship of the proletariat in place. If it didn’t then same things we see happening in capitalist societies would be happening there as well.

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          4 months ago

          Honestly I’m not the biggest fan of everything in China but these are the types of problems the Chinese government seems to try to figure out a lot more than our governments do.

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            4 months ago

            Strengths and weaknesses. Each country has some. Often the net makes them worse than other countries, but that doesn’t mean they can’t have better aspects

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              4 months ago

              Meh. Most countries round the world seem to suffer from the same problems to me. Sometimes the jack boot on your neck presses down more. Sometimes less.

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          The PRC largely keeps their bourgeoisie in line by holding almost all of Heavy Industry and large firms in the Public Sector. The owner of a rubber ball factory has far less influence over the economy than the Rubber Factory. In the PRC, banking, energy, steel, infrastructure, and many more critical industries the Private Sector must rely on are held in Public hands. That’s the basis of SWCC.

          Time will tell if this was the “correct” choice, but so far the gamble appears to be paying off. There’s a long way to go, but the path forward is open and not closed.