Fig 0. Youtube video title and comment
“ President Xi spends 364 days of the year showing mankind the right way they should go.” ” What about the rest of the day?” ” Turn around, and point opposite way. ”
There are a lot of similarities and differences I found between US and China, except all of their products are made in the same place and both love winnie the pooh, and I will talk about that on 3 topics, economy, politics(sociology), and culture. This post is going to be a little long, because I'm going to have to write some shit history like how Grandpa told those stories…
Fig 1. Winnie the pooh and the Tiger (Right) vs Parody
I believe except good at stealing technology and making virus, we, China provide the most successful ever model that capitalism dictatorships should learn from: an authoritarian government, capitalist market economy, and making illusion that the government is doing socialism so people won’t complain.
The KGB was ordered to go into the forest without rabbit to catch a rabbit, and in a few moments there came out a bear with a bloody head, and as the bear walked away, he said, "Don't fight, I'm the rabbit you're looking for.” - Soviet Union Joke
Fig 2. Elephant penguin meme about China
There is always a saying you can hear from any kind of social media or textbook in China that The nowadays China’s prosperity is the result we follow a path of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and at its core is the leadership of the Communist Party of China. It is true that in the CCP play a very important role in the past decades development of Chinese economy, but it’s not fully rely on Socialism way as they tell you.
Types of Socialism vary based on the role of markets and planning in resource allocation, so we could make it simplified into two economic system — the planned economy or the market economy. The former can be simply understood as government-led economic activities (in China, social organizations play an insignificant role in this process actually, I will explain that latter), while the latter is market regulating itself. Thus, the debate about whether it is Socialism or not also focuses on whether there is a market and, if there is a market, what the role of the market should be.
As Deng Xiaoping said, the architect of the Chinese economic reforms, the market economy was synonymous with capitalism or that planning was synonymous with socialism. It is true that we have to leave the discussion of ideological issues in abeyance treating it as a “neutral tool”, and also I don't want to get into the debate between the classical and Keynesian schools of economics here because of it is not only about economy but politics. So I will now first wrote some tedious history and numbers to show how the Chinese economic model has changed in the past, and also would like to emphasize that even this "instrumentality" or “neutrality” of the market economy does not change the fact that it is not a Socialism in terms of values we all agree — Equality. Socialism should not be so unequally distributed like China.