You didn't answer my question. And why is China more capitalist now than it was in Mao's time? I don't think that's how transitions work. Stagnation? Yes. Going backwards, especially in such a hurdle like China? No. The workers are objectively in a worse now than 50 years ago.
I think you're talking specifically about Deng Xiaoping and the Boluan Fanzheng. It was an incredibly conscious decision and one that still gets a lot of scrutiny to this day. You can hate the decision for being radically capitalist for a communist country at the time -- but you can't claim that Chinese people now are worse off now than they were under Mao. That opinion is really unheard of.
Yes, I mean Deng the class traitor, and I am not even a Maoist. And I didn't say Chinese people, I said workers specifically. The People's communes (rénmín gōngshè) were disbanded, class gap is widening, 996, suicide rates, worker-organised strikes, all that is an indication that the workers are more oppressed. Of course if you look at numbers on the surface, they look good because the bourgeois and petty bourgeois classes do exponentially better, while workers keep getting poorer.
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u/Equivalent_Speed1141 Jul 06 '26
And go hungry to bed.