Point taken about China possibly not being as conflicted as I imagine, but can you explain to me what a socialist market economy is? It seems to me like the growing number of people who are driving round in Ferraris while some remain in the paddy fields, is pretty strong evidence of the emergence of a capitalist class and anything but socialist in nature. Sounds more like a good old fashioned dictatorship bolted onto a free market. I cant see how you can be politically socialist, but economically capitalist? You either believe in the equal distribution of wealth from an equal division of labour, or accept that the resulting unequal distribution of wealth in a free market, is right and fair. You cant conveniently separate the economy from the politics, because the economy is the politics.In regards to the old Communist State China has been pursuing a policy of a 'Socialist Market Economy' for a good number of years..
We have Deng Xiaoping to generally thank for that... Communist reform in the 90's was quite common you'll remember Perestroika in the Soviet Union, Doi Moi in Vietnam etc....
The Chinese pragmatically I suppose seem to accept the benifits of a single party state and the benifits of an active Market Economy.
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