Karnal wrote Yesterday at 8:59pm:
That's nice, Great, but you can't expect to have one solution (or one problem) for everything.
Things are complicated. Comrade Mao tried a cultural revolution, remember? In a decade's time, everybody would be capitalist roaders again.
Beware of universal solutions. Before any progress, one must destroy the imperialist within, no?
1. Not ONE solution, maybe, but:
"money is the root of all evil"
and
"it's the economy, stupid".....
2. Speaking of which (a brief history):
Marx said "workers of the world, unite"; and his 'Communist Manifesto' made him world famous - though economists and politicians ignored his ideas in his lifetime.
Lenin was the first to apply these ideas, but Russia was a mostly subsistence agriculture economy which Marx had not considered in his writings concerned with workers tied to machines and oppressed by capitalists (during the industrial revolutiion).
'Collectivization' doesn't transfer well to 'free' individuals toiling in fields to feed themselves, so farmers showed resistance to the new 'communist' state.
Mao made the same mistake in China; but the CCP is pragmatic and soon after Mao, they became "capitalist roaders", as you noted.
But 'communism' did transform both nations into manufacturing power-houses, eg, enabling Stalin to push Hitler out of Russia; and now China can out-compete the US in manufacturing (and Trump is not pleased...).
3. An economy which works for all (the MMT goal: 'Public Money: Public Good') is by it's nature "universalist", but not in the "imperialist" sense which implies domination over other nations.
I spy your (Western) 'individual freedom' ideology colouring your narrative...
...which IS on topic in this 'No Kings' thread...
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