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How did China survive/evade USA fuckery so well? (hexbear.net)

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When I look at other communist nations, they were invaded, couped, and/or sabotaged at every opportunity, and (forgive me, my history of China is weak) while I'm sure that China faced obstacles from capitalists outside of the country, it somehow rose up to be the power that it is today while the USSR fell, Vietnam and Korea got bombed to hell and back, Cuba was put under crippling sanctions, and surely countless other uprisings got squashed young.

But china didn't just survive, they thrived. How?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Since I haven't seen it mentioned it, what role did reeducation and cultural revolutions play in China to help it resist Western influence? Many other communist revolutions had a disaffected petite bourgeoisie class that resented the new system and worked to undermine it through subterfuge. Did the effects of the Chinese civil war and later reforms have enough staying power to change people's general ideas of property and government?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Many other communist revolutions had a disaffected petite bourgeoisie class that resented the new system and worked to undermine it through subterfuge.

Something that blew my mind recently is that the 5 stars on the chinese flag represent the CPC (the big star), and then the four "revolutionary classes": the peasantry, the proletariat, the petite bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democracy

ince I haven't seen it mentioned it, what role did reeducation and cultural revolutions play in China to help it resist Western influence?

I don't know enough to answer, but one thing is clear: it worked with Xi

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

the peasantry, the proletariat, the petite bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie

Almost inconceivable that this alliance could exist and it would support socialism. Turns out the material conditions in the global south are radically different from those in the imperial core.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago

Follow up thought, China was extremely underdeveloped (due to being colonized and war) by the time the communists wrestled their way to power. Because they were able to gradually increase the quality of life and stability of society, they were able to maintain popular support. European communist nations were either already developed (GDR) or not developed very fully (Romania?), so the citizens didn't give the government credit for improving their material conditions