"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have ...

parthdesai · 2026-04-24T12:58:56 1777035536

Quoting a guy who is (in)directly responsible for murder of about 4 million people. Nice

jampekka · 2026-04-24T10:10:01 1777025401

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics had not been tried at that point :)

WarmWash · 2026-04-24T14:19:26 1777040366

Ironically you can map China's progress over the last 30 years directly with their adoption of capitalistic policies.

The more capitalistic they become, the more growth they have seen.

usrnm · 2026-04-24T11:52:27 1777031547

To be fair, Deng Xiaoping's reforms were based on the older New Economic Policy or NEP from the 1920s USSR, so it had been tried at that point. It was scrapped in the USSR for other reasons, not because it failed.

sscaryterry · 2026-04-24T10:11:01 1777025461

Exactly, maybe we've got it all wrong :)

crimsoneer · 2026-04-24T11:06:20 1777028780

The word you're looking for is dictatorship, and it is not new.