China from the 50s to the 80s was a full blown Marxist regime. Mao followed Marx down to the letter… And it resulted in some of the highest death tolls in history. China was a regressive and stagnant place full of death and poverty until the Deng Xaioping liberalized the economy. That’s when China’s historic rise started happening. Xaioping kept the authoritarianism, propaganda, and overreach of Marxism the same as it was, he just opened the economy in certain ways and in certain places to allow for capitalism. Actually the Tiananmen square massacre happened because a bunch of civilians, mainly college students, protested these liberal reforms, and Xaioping ordered the massacre to shut them up. Ultimately Xaioping proved to be right because capitalism is what brought China to where it is today. Since then leader after leader, they all understood the importance of keep the economy liberal and strengthening diplomatic ties… Until Xi Jinping came to power and started reversing the trends. Is China Marxist? It depends on the semantics. If you’re looking purely at the economics instead of the Marxist ideology as a whole then China is not purely Marxist like it was under Mao, but it would wrong to label it as a capitalist economy as well. Calling China a hybrid economy is the most accurate way to describe it.
China is not Marxist. It is capitalist under communist disguise.
I really like the term “state capitalist”.
China from the 50s to the 80s was a full blown Marxist regime. Mao followed Marx down to the letter… And it resulted in some of the highest death tolls in history. China was a regressive and stagnant place full of death and poverty until the Deng Xaioping liberalized the economy. That’s when China’s historic rise started happening. Xaioping kept the authoritarianism, propaganda, and overreach of Marxism the same as it was, he just opened the economy in certain ways and in certain places to allow for capitalism. Actually the Tiananmen square massacre happened because a bunch of civilians, mainly college students, protested these liberal reforms, and Xaioping ordered the massacre to shut them up. Ultimately Xaioping proved to be right because capitalism is what brought China to where it is today. Since then leader after leader, they all understood the importance of keep the economy liberal and strengthening diplomatic ties… Until Xi Jinping came to power and started reversing the trends. Is China Marxist? It depends on the semantics. If you’re looking purely at the economics instead of the Marxist ideology as a whole then China is not purely Marxist like it was under Mao, but it would wrong to label it as a capitalist economy as well. Calling China a hybrid economy is the most accurate way to describe it.