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[quote=ELCABRON,224380]I read a travel review where the writer was surprised by the mix of communism and capitalism in China.http://community.travelchinaguide.com/review2.asp?pp=1&i=478I guess many people who havent been to China face the same question, so here are some ideas about this topic:What you see today is the toughest stoneage capitalism in the world. Like DARWINs idea of survival of the fittest.You know, Chinese are very pragmatic. As long as tomorrows prosperity is higher than todays, nobody cares about who runs the country. Lets say, if I have one more tv and the chance for a car tomorrow, I will do everything to reach that and Im satisfied. In MASLOWs Pyramid as a hierarchy of needs, food ranks the lowest while self fulfilment comes in the end, when every other wish is already satisfied. So physiological and belonging needs have to be satisfied first. The rather poor US social insurance system looks like an utopian Cockaigne compared to China. But that is no criticism! Instead, their politics are very clever. See Russians wanted to start at the top of the Pyramid and changed the political system first - the result was a catastrophy! Chinese do it the other way round and despite some bad mouths, it seems to become very successful! Since DENG XIAOPINGs early market liberation starting shortly after “great” chairman MAO passed away, the Chinese reached an average economic growth of nearly 10% over the last twenty years. Of course it is easy to have a strong growth if you start at zero, but keeping it over such a long time and avoiding the Asian crisis a few years ago, is fascinating.My favourite is the philosophical argumentation of the economic change. Think of it, after fighting for equality and fraternity for some fifty years DENG just said it is not important if a cat is white or black, as lond as it catches mice. The further (condensed)argument of communism is that it follows the social development after capitalism on a higher stage. Which means you have to exploit people first before you can make everybody equal (in bad words;-)So there is Communism printed on the outside, but with INTEL inside;-)[/quote]
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