Re:China to Set Up ‘Security Offices’ Inside Internet Companies
by netcan on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @04:58PM
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I agree, to an extent but I think you are overstating it. Russian Communism had similar results (I think it's the 20s-40s though. They moved from Czarism to communism. That's either proof that it's easy to grow from a low base or that communism is good at it. It might be that the two are unrelated. Overall, I tend to agree that degree to which China was depressed under Maoism needs to be accounted for.
Still, China's been doing better than India and a lot of other more liberal places.
I think the general point is inconclusive, but it's the specific point that matters. China over the last generation got a lot richer and there is no reason to think it would have done better economically if it was more liberal politically.
I think that even with the Stasi, corruption and the appeal of western culture to East Germans, the regime would still exist had it not failed economically. And, like I said at the start I think it's a stretch to tell China that they're in the same boat as N Korea, Cuba, and the USSR.
Still, China's been doing better than India and a lot of other more liberal places.
I think the general point is inconclusive, but it's the specific point that matters. China over the last generation got a lot richer and there is no reason to think it would have done better economically if it was more liberal politically.
I think that even with the Stasi, corruption and the appeal of western culture to East Germans, the regime would still exist had it not failed economically. And, like I said at the start I think it's a stretch to tell China that they're in the same boat as N Korea, Cuba, and the USSR.