When I look at other communist nations, they were invaded, couped, and/or sabotaged at every opportunity, and (forgive me, my history of China is weak) while I’m sure that China faced obstacles from capitalists outside of the country, it somehow rose up to be the power that it is today while the USSR fell, Vietnam and Korea got bombed to hell and back, Cuba was put under crippling sanctions, and surely countless other uprisings got squashed young.

But china didn’t just survive, they thrived. How?

  • TrustedFeline [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Many other communist revolutions had a disaffected petite bourgeoisie class that resented the new system and worked to undermine it through subterfuge.

    Something that blew my mind recently is that the 5 stars on the chinese flag represent the CPC (the big star), and then the four “revolutionary classes”: the peasantry, the proletariat, the petite bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democracy

    ince I haven’t seen it mentioned it, what role did reeducation and cultural revolutions play in China to help it resist Western influence?

    I don’t know enough to answer, but one thing is clear: it worked with Xi