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