I view journalists as downstream from the policy creation process, their role is to manufacture consent for a strategic direction the policy creation establishment already wants to go. Academia is rewarded/punished for serving/undermining the process.
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Everyone knew they could solve the problem, no one could do it because any leader who tried to step away from communism either would start a preference cascade (as happened) or would get replaced - either way all ambitious people were locked into the system.
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Everything had to be rationalized back into the official state ideology, sure. But communist ideology has proven quite malleable, Stalin totally transfigured Leninism, and look at how far the CCP has developed beyond OG Maoism.
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Read the paper I linked, the same sabotage of agriculture occured prior to the revolution. It wasn't due to ideological commitment but was a structural conflict aimed at centralizing power. Ideology is the instrument of statecraft. Machiavelli & Jouvenel lurk in the shadows.
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