Bhaskar Sunkara
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first heard Dec 2022
last heard Dec 2022
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Everyone will be wealthier if we move to some sort of authoritarian government.
I think...
Yeah, absolutely.
since Deng Xiaoping, the policies have been better economically.
And often at times, not always, the technocratic governance has been quite good.
But that doesn't mean that the party has a democratic mandate or should have the right to govern as they see fit.
Because clearly, you know,
It doesn't have that mandate in swaths of the country or in places like Hong Kong or elsewhere.
But to me...
Nothing the Chinese Communist Party does has anything to do with socialism.
I think even by their own definition today, it really doesn't.
It's a sort of nationalist, authoritarian, developmental state that has done some good things to improve the living standards of the Chinese people.
Other things that were counterproductive.
And, you know, as a democratic socialist...
I certainly don't support that state, but I also hope that the U.S.
and Biden will find a way to avoid intense rivalry and competition economically spilling over into something worse.
Well, the democratic part comes before the socialist part.
So I would say there needs to be multi-party elections in China and state censorship and control over the press, in other words, needs to be done with.
As far as their immediate economic policy, I think the idea of maintaining strong state control of certain commanding heights of the economy while liberalizing other spheres is
has done quite well in China's case, lifting people out of poverty.
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