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This'll be that lifting people out of poverty with socialism I've heard so much about

theguardian.com/business/2019/…
Some people have been lifted so far out of poverty by socialism that they're now richer than 90% of the planet!

"Arise, ye workers from your slumber,
Arise, ye prisoners of want!"
Go on then, if you want me to be less flippant then I'm gonna suggest you all read Maurice Meisner's "Mao's China and After", probably the best critical overview on China I know of libcom.org/library/maos-c…
From the Preface: "Over the past two decades, China
has undergone the most massive and the most intensive era of capitalist development in world history"
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Now the world is talking about kowtowing to China money, but actually it's the China money that's affecting the world's giant groups to go bankrupt or restructuring.

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