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Alex Mumzhiu
2006-03-20 17:44:21

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in newspapers in English. And it is true. It is full blown Socialism here in China. I recognize its familiar features. You may be too, from my letters and pictures. After spectacular failure of 70 year long Socialistic experiment in the Soviet Union, the shares of Socialism fell to all time low, so to say. But, as with any experiment, the failure may result from two reasons. One, the concept was wrong, the second, experimenter was drunk. Chinese decided to try this concept one more time. And it is so good so far. And who is helping them? Vladimir Lenin once said that we (Communists) will hang the capitalists and they, the capitalists themself, will sell us the rope for this. So you, and me and the rest of the world, who buy all that stuff which is made in China helped the Chinese model of Socialism to achieve the great success which they enjoy now. Chinese behave more smart then Soviets used to do. They do not talk about an export of revolution at this time and do not help workers and peasants movements in Papua, New Giney or Central Africa. But China's socialism is strong as never before and they not going to change it to capitalism. They have good contacts and mutual cooperation with other Socialistic countries. Socialism has many advantages especially for countries like China, which always had something in common with anthill. Hovewer the Socialism is good until the good guy is on the top. The main drawback of Socialism with its one party system is that it doesn't have the proper system for feedback, in terms of the theory of automatic regulation (my college profession). If a wrong guy somehow gets to the top, It is very difficult to take him out. China wants to repeat the success of South Korea and Japan, they say this openly. However keeping in mind the size of the country, 1.3 billions of population and considerable natural recourses, with such speed of progress as now in 10 years China will be second world power after America or may be the same. ...