"Market-Leninist"

[Captain2]

I was watching CNN and heard the thread title to describe China, playing on the title of Marxist-Leninist, that got me wondering how China went from Maoist to what is it today, could anyone break it down?

thanks

 

[LightSpectra]

Basically, Deng Xaoping came to power and enabled a lot of free market reforms. However, to give the illusion that his country was still striving for communism, he called it "socialism with Chinese characteristics".

 

[Knight-Dragon]

If anything, it's "Imperial China with modern characteristics" than anything Marxist or Leninist.

 

[warpus]

Words don't really mean anything on CNN.

You may ignore what you have heard.

 

[Arwon]

One fun justification they made at the beginning was that in order to have socialism you need to go through capitalism first, and so they were going to do that for a few decades before becoming socialist.

 

[RedRalph]

there was a slow counter-revolution, China is no longer communist at all.

 

[plarq]

there was a slow counter-revolution, China is no longer communist at all.

Common Maoist comment on current Chinese administration in Beijing.

in China there's a Maoistic website called Utopia--www.wyzxsx.com .
the English language counterpart is www.monthlyreview.org .

According to some leftist radical/orthodox Maoist comment, this website is persecuted by Chinese government occasionally.