man, it would be a dream when China one day become a free country where its no longer a communist. When they become more open minded and change for the better, it would be really cool if they can downfall communism. Russia did it back in 1991....makes me curious when China can change too...if ever...
btw, is the word choice downfall inaccurate when i say downfall communism on the above paragraph?
Due to the huge population in China I dont think a different system would be appropriate for China. A system of capitalism will extend opportunities and welfare for certain groups and completely isolate and threw away whoever is not needed. And we are talking about billions.
Regarding Russia although it seems like a free country now, life is harder for many many people. There is LOTS of poverty. The population is mostly consisted of a some rich and the many poor. Middle class isnt as common as many should expect.
A friend of mine who stays in Moscow for his studies in fine arts also confirmed this. They are also very narrow minded, suffer from huge welfare inequality, there is lots of poverty, education is low, there are lots of neo-nazis in the streets, too much crime etc. The rich Russians though are in a completely different world, having enough to spend millions of dollars for just a small piece of jewelery
If you go to the market, you might notice that the majority of people having enough only to purhcase half a tomato, one piece of cheese, some tiny amounts of other vegetables, and if they are lucky some small quantity of meat at the most, while some of the rich Russians and foregners walk into shops pucrhasing expensive coats
It sounds very strange for many of us but there are many many people who prefer the days of communism because atleast their first needs were quaranteed to get satisfied.
Communism in Russia commited suicide by itself. Stalin took out all of the original, more rational revolitionists and politicians, and adopted a govermental bureaucratic capitalism, a dictatorship under the guise of a socialistic system in which he also cut trade totally with a great amount of countries. They tried to counter these issues of that policy with the creation of the Soviet Union in which trade would help economy work.
But it was too limited and Stalin was a madman who completely sucked up the other members of the soviet union and he forced labor to work just like in the first forms of capitalism. Treated only as tools, under limited rights and in a confined Union that of the Sovieti n an effort to maintain the Soviet Union powerful. During the Cold War ESSR and the US didnt differ from two huge companies in a system of capitalism trying to take over each other.
It was far from what Marx envisioned. China is similar but its less conservative than the Soviet Union, and does trade globally, thats why China will continue for years to come.
Closing this I have to add that circumstances vary in countries so expecting a policy that works great or atleast satisfactory for some doesnt mean it will work perfectly or better than the previous in another.
This is something many people should put well up in their heads before they decide which is best for each country based on "personal" experiences.
For example I wouldnt want to see an effort to adopt comminism in my country because it wouldnt work. Not because communism is illogical, but because trying to adopt it under these circumstances is illogical. Such an effort will create once again another pseudo communist regime which might also turn out as a dictatorship. But if you ask me about China, changing it into a western capitalism, again it wont work as well. China is in reality another form of capitalism, different from the western one despite the entitlement of "communist country"
