There's a long tradition in the US media of treating Chinese government policy as subtle and inscrutable expression of grand national strategy, so it's particularly funny that the CCP put a guy in charge who is simply a Marxist-Leninist fundamentalist.https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-corporate-crackdown-tech-markets-investors-11628182971 …
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Replying to @Pinboard
If he were really a "Marxist-Leninist fundamentalist", China would have no more private enterprise, and you would hear plenty of talk of class struggle. He isn't that.
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There's a whole body of theory explaining why China went through a free market phase, and why it will ultimately be replaced by communism. It's not like CCP leaders didn't notice the tension there.
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Yes, but it depends what you mean by communism. The "Sinification of Marxism" means that they can make it mean whatever they see fit. I doubt China will ever go back to complete state-ownership of the means of production.
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Yeah, that's kind of the point I'm struggling to make. There's a coherent body of theory around it, just like the Catholic Church found a way around Jesus ordering the rich to give away all their money. Since Xi happens to believe that theory, it's important to understand it
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