China’s plan to organize its society relies on ‘big data’ to rate everyone

Re:China’s plan to organize its society relies on ‘big data’... by dealiaro on Sunday October 23, 2016 @05:44AM (#12772771)

This is kind of interesting, in a "history of communism" type of way.

There’s been a sense that communism as a goal in China has been in zombie mode for a while with the system continuing temporarily until an economic crisis or somesuch brings it to an end.

This reminds me of the various “rationalisation” initiatives undertaken by state communism(s) in their early days which formed such a big part of what we think of as communism. These were (attempts at) nitty-gritty policies aimed at achieving the goals of big talking communist slogans and utopianism.

It seems revivalist.

In some ways, this ideas kind of makes “sense’. Digitisation, social media and other features of modern societies lend better (at least in theory, while wearing our 99 year old state-communism hats) to this sort of societal engineering than their 20th century equivalents.

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Re:China’s plan to organize its society relies on ‘big data’... by eveningcoffee on Sunday October 23, 2016 @06:07AM (#12772827)

Zombie mode communism has been already tried right in the beginning by New Economic Policy in Soviet Union between 1922 and 1928 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy

The end was one of the bloodiest crimes against humanity and one of the most widespread genocides of the previous century.

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