- 26 Dec 2011 16:45
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"in reality it was the Communists above all others who prevented revolution in Spain" George Orwell
Economic Left/Right: -10.0 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.31
No, China was not socialist, never, as I said. It was a deformed workers state. It was run by a Stalinist bureaucracy. Socialism has a lot more democracy than a bourgeois democracy. China had no democracy. A planned economy need mass participation in decision making. The idea is to evolve toward communism in which everyone is a part time worker and part time planner and there is no government. Bureaucratic planning is slow and poor, as the bureaucrats are not involved in production. Its the bureaucratic nature of Stalinism which screwed up these economies.
"in reality it was the Communists above all others who prevented revolution in Spain" George Orwell
Economic Left/Right: -10.0 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.31