Preston Maness ☭<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@benroyce" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@SUp3rN0va" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SUp3rN0va</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.community/@jhy001" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jhy001</span></a></span> China's governance is building socialism with Chinese characteristics. It has a communist party over 100 million comrades strong. That party has presided over a massive improvement in the standard of living in their country; indeed at the expense of reform and opening up to capitalism, but with the party retaining political control.</p><p>They are trying to wrangle capitalism in a way that hasn't been done before, and may not succeed. It's certainly possible that the capitalist bourgeoisie could take over. But it's hardly a guarantee either.</p><p>Ultimately, when you describe "capitalist" China, capitalists around the world get mighty antsy. They would much rather a "capitalist" China that looks a lot more like the capitalist United States. That alone should be reason enough to hold off on declaring China a lost cause.</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E7%89%B9%E8%89%B2%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E4%B8%BB%E4%B9%89" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>中国特色社会主义</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/SCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCC</span></a></p>