He did a deng good job!
Haha thank you thank you, I’m here forever

>>18412525
He destroyed any hope of Communism being achieved in exchange for short term capitalist growth.

>>18412997
>Short term
China is still growing, tho barely, we can give you that. If it had been short term they would have never risen to #2 world power. They would be like Russia, a weak nation stagnant like smaller countries ala france or britain.
>Communism dead in China
Wrong, they are still Commies. Their population even continues singing Maoist songs and shit. Xi is a commie, he isn't allowing billionaires to get too big and forces them to be detained and their money taken for the state when he pleases, how is that not Communism?

>>18413049
>China is still growing
They've been in a recession for the past 6 years, they became #2 because they have over a billion people, that's not to say that smart domestic economic policy didn't play any roles either, India also has over a billion people but they're a complete shithole.

>>18413052
>They've been in a recession for the past 6 years
Rather than stagnating uncontrollably like Japan, they popped the bubble themselves. This is the best case scenario for what was always an inevitable slowdown.

>>18413049
There has never been a Communist society apart from primitive communism. Communism is a classless, stateless, moneyless society where each person contributes what they are able and in return can take what they need.
That said, I understand your point. You mean to suggest they are Socialists who adhere to a Communist ideology. You're still wrong.

A capitalist economy as laid out by Marx in the very opening of volume 1 of Capital is one in which production of commodities occurs for exchange value, that is commodities are produced to be sold, traded on markets, to generate profit from surplus value generated by the exploitation of the working classes.
The actual needs of the population are irrelevant since the capitalist believes the free market will self correct (our current situation debunks this theory).
This is exactly how the modern Chinese state operates.

By contrast, a socialist society is one in which the production of commodities occurs for use value, that is produced according to what is necessary for the population, rather than the production of whatever may extract the highest profit margins.
Goods are available not for purchase with currency, but for those who need them, within the reasonable quantity, on the basis that they need them, and none will go without because those taking goods and who are able to do so will in turn provide their own worth to society via their own contribution of labour. It may be a system of single use, non-exchangeable labour vouchers take the place of currency during a transitory period.

In a socialist society the capitalist class will be eliminated since there will be no need for anyone to extract and hoard surplus value. It's antithetical to socialism. There's no such thing possible as the people's billionaires or the people's stock exchange.
China can dress up as any LARP they want. They can call themselves what they want. It is capitalism all the same.

>>18412525
He realized there have to actually be means of production for you to seize before you can seize the means of production.

>>18412531
XD !!

>>18412525
You mean how did Zemin, Jintao, and Jinping do it?

>>18412525
harnessing the productive engine of capitalism without sacrificing the worker's party's control over the state
lighting a fire in a fireplace and enjoying the warmth vs lighting a fire in your garage and burning the house down