China's been a bastion of human rights violations, placing the communist party's collective needs over individual rights. The way i see it, the trend of rampant capitalism overwhelming the nation's economy is going to eventually change the system of governance in China.
Consider this. As a communist country, the Chinese government controlled all assets/businesses. This changed when they allowed foreign investments in China, which began holding controlling interests in numerous companies. The Chinese people are also great entrepreneurs, starting numerous businesses and empowering poor people with money. What money gives people is limited control over their own decisions and their lifestyle, which could also be interpreted as sowing the seeds of independence from their government. They now choose what they want to eat, where they want to live, what they intend to buy, and who they intend to invest their surplus money in. In other words, over time, groups of Chinese investors/businessmen will have considerable influence over businesses and in effect, over the people that run their businesses. Soon, pockets of influence will spring up all over China, each representing their own region's interests and championing their own group's cause. Even if just restricted to the topmost percentile of Chinese citizens, these "private" investors would have the breadth to get their voices heard and the Government would be compelled to listen.
Pockets of influence also create lobbyists, who work with the upper echelons of the Goverment to promote their interests and individual requests. This is more a natural consequence of empowering people with money, rather than being a systemic disturbance in a communist society. Over a certain period of time, human rights lobbyists promoting individual rights and needs will eventually "have" to be heard and addressed. If China's going to be a progressive society that I hope it turns out to be, their citizen's voice will be heard. Their rights protected, and their identities promoted. This ofcourse would take ten of years, if not more, but their communist foundations of systemic control would eventually shatter as a result of their capitalistic aspirations.
Money empowers. Empowerment is the cradle of a progressiveness.
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I dont understand much about how people in the game are actually thinking, but what if they are not as "miserable" as we think they are? I do not say whether I advocate communism, but I've met several Chineses, and they all seem to be very complacent with their current conditions. Not sure if this is some kind of brain wash or purely patriotism. Communism works no where but in China. Must there be something in it?
Well, I was in China this summer and they talked a lot about Chinese system nowadays. Their system has changed over time, it's not purely communism anymore. The government starts to care more about property rights and encourages private-owned business. They just can't turn their back on what Mao said centuries ago but underneath the surface, an economic revolution is undertaking.
*not centuries but decades, sorry.
I agree that there has been a great change in China's system, and that it will keep changing and form into more of a communist and capitalist hybrid. In the original post, it was said that "Soon, pockets of influence will spring up all over China, each representing their own region's interests and championing their own group's cause. Even if just restricted to the topmost percentile of Chinese citizens, these "private" investors would have the breadth to get their voices heard and the Government would be compelled to listen," which reminds me a lot of how in the United States, businesses will try to affect the government's decisions (through lobbyists, donations, etc.), so it definitely seems that, even now, China is moving towards a more capitalist system.
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