thegreatdivide wrote on May 10
th, 2021 at 1:31pm:
NorthOfNorth
Socialism with Chinese characteristics' is a clever combination of private sector free enterprise in "invisible hand" markets overseen by public sector subsidization of R&D on behalf of national productivity enhancement.
Nothing like the soviet 'command economy' model.
IP "theft" is long past, you can thank Trump for the fact China is now developing its own technological prowess.
As for running foul of the CCP: if you join the majority who are pleased to participate in the unparalleled increase in living standards for everyone, promised and implemented by the Party, instead of pushing obsolete "me first" policies, you will be as free as anyone in a hyper-partisan western democratic rabble.
And in Xinjiang, China of course has to deal with backward Islamist terrorists ...which is why the mainlanders are outraged by false Western propaganda re genocide; such false claims have alienated mainland Chinese even more from Western hypocrites who bombed the Taliban for 20 years ( and failed), and who tolerate systemic disadvantage in their own nations eg high black incarceration and poverty rates in the US and Australia.
Ahh, so you are Chinese.
Stalinism is characterised by brutal authoritarianism, the use of terror as a state weapon, hyper-nationalism, expansionism, the widespread use of slave or forced labour, arbitrary arrest, imprisonment, disappearing, state vilification of internal ethnicities and state-sanctioned murder of its own people.
National Socialism is almost identical to Stalinism with the notable exception that state assets could be and was sold to private citizens and private citizens may become rich. However the party had ultimate and complete control over every facet of your conduct and your wealth could be confiscated at any time by the state.
As Mao realised, there is little practical difference between the two, although he took exception to the concept of private property.
Deng Xiao Ping brought the two ideologies together to create an amalgam of Stalinism and National Socialism (something Nixon worried about: that he had unleashed a Frankenstein on the world - which he had).
Mao saw himself as the rightful successor to Lenin's then Stalin's 'throne' (hence the parades which included massive images of Lenin and Stalin making the statement that Mao was the third). He then created his own eponymous ideology (as Lenin and Stalin had done).
Xi Jinping is now attempting to eclipse both Mao and Deng preferring the ideologies of Stalin and National Socialism and has added the euphemism 'with Chinese characteristics' - the lipstick on the pig (as Marist socialism was for Lenin, Stalin and Mao). Being a 'red prince' it's not surprising that he thinks he's justified in ascending to the 'throne' of Mao and, to that end, is throttling all resistance within the CSNSP to his ascendancy.
Xi publishes books on his Stalinist-National Socialist ideals, so he's following Mao in the book-writing aspect. He is every bit a Stalinist-National Socialist in the way that eclipses even Deng Xiaoping.