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Um… Chairman Mao is rolling in his grave now…I think even China admits (*ok, almost admits, because they never admit anything wrong*) the Cultural Revolution was a mistake.
And last time i checked, the disparity between the peasants in China and the ultra wealthy was pretty big….
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Yes, but get the timeline straight. The wealth disparity happens AFTER they concluded the cultrual revolution was a mistake and started economical reforms.
Also, I too consider that the Cultural Revolution is a mistake. Just like no matter how outrageous we are toward the bankers, it is better to have a few millionaires than everyone earning minimal wages. But if you think revolution does not create more equal society initially, you’d be wrong. But equal society is not a better society.
Dude, I talk to plenty of people who grew up during the cultural revolution. Common theme was, it doesn’t matter if everyone is the same if everyone is poor. It sucks. If there is no incentive to distinguish oneself for say being a CEO, doctor, or etc from say someone that work at McD’s, what’s really what motivation do humans (who have a propensity to be lazy) to be better than someone who doesn’t do the same thing and get paid relatively the same.
If the socialist system works so well, why are countries like China ditching such “equality for everyone” from which they have been operating from for decades in exchange for the very same market systems and capitalist systems here that so many americans these days have contempt for?
It just is disturbing that on one hand we have China, engrained in socialism for decades as a backward nation, gradually embracing capitalism….Here on the other hand, we have the U.S. gradually embracing socialism in parallel with our country’s decline. I wonder how things are going to look 10 years from now.
