I don’t see any indicators that their governance of China has produced socialism. Developed the economy, doubtless, reduced poverty, doubtless, but neither of these are definitional of socialism and the Deng period saw many political reversals that had nothing to do with a historically limited use of state capitalism.
It’s been a few years now since I read it but in Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era at least one of the contributors talks about the retrenchment of traditional patriarchal norms in the Deng era, for example, which is unjustifiable.
Will they reach socialism by 2050? Not without a revolution!
I don’t see any indicators that their governance of China has produced socialism. Developed the economy, doubtless, reduced poverty, doubtless, but neither of these are definitional of socialism and the Deng period saw many political reversals that had nothing to do with a historically limited use of state capitalism.
It’s been a few years now since I read it but in Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era at least one of the contributors talks about the retrenchment of traditional patriarchal norms in the Deng era, for example, which is unjustifiable.
Will they reach socialism by 2050? Not without a revolution!