Is China's economy in trouble or not?

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But that form of Marxism only allowed a revolutionary role to the industrial proletariat. Mao changed it by making a revolutionary class of agrarian peasants -- a class Marx always dismissed as irrelevant.

Is that still CPC doctrine?

You haven't read very carefully the second half of my original post.

They of course know what they were doing, Marxism was in name only.

Reading the history of all dynasties of China, you will know that if you want to make something big, you need to have a decent and proper reason. Even when you bang a group of women on your bed six days out of a week, you can glorify this business to be a grand event to help create a new generation.

Who knows what the real Marxism is? Even an expert in this field cannot finish reading all the lengthy works written by that German and even if they can do that what they read is no more than the translation done by another Chinese expert.

 

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They of course know what they were doing, Marxism was in name only.

Is it still? How much commitment to Marxism does the CPC really have?

 

[Politruk]

Do the Chinese people really care about whether they ever get Taiwan back? Or is it only the leaders who care about that?

 

[gxnn]

Do the Chinese people really care about whether they ever get Taiwan back? Or is it only the leaders who care about that?

According to the older generation people of China, they remember that each year in the new year address published in People's Daily or broadcast on Central Radio of People, either Chairman Mao or the central government leader called for the people of the whole country to make up their minds to liberate Taiwan. That is the usual customs as American people eat turkeys on Thanksgiving. But later after the reform and opening up starting in 1979, people do not have so much interest in politics as their fathers did.
But that doesn't mean they do not care, they care from the other perspectives. If they were blind to voice their supports to the authorities previously, they are now NOT, because they know the market or their benefit is closely linked to the politics.
My personal understanding is that previously when you did not have enough food to fill your stomach you would like to see the rice bowls or food plates of others broken too, so they wanted to take back the island because they had no other better thing to do. When things are different, both sides of the Taiwan Strait are getting benefits from each other, they will love to maintain the status quo.
However, the economic situation is declining, the government has to find a way out and the grassroot need a vent, then things become complicated. Anything Is Possible or Impossible Is Nothing, that is not just the slogan of Adidas or Li Ning.

 

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How much commitment to Marxism does the CPC really have?