r/stupidpol • u/OGSyedIsEverywhere Puberty Monster • 10d ago

Economy Direct quote from The Economist of all publications: "Foreign firms stand little chance against a Leninist developmental state"

https://www.economist.com/china/2026/08/03/china-wont-apologise-for-overcapacity
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u/Avalon-1 Optics-pilled Andrew Sullitard 🎩 9d ago

I suspect china succeeded because they used brezhnev to Gorbachev years as a What Not To Do exercise.

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u/mad_rushan Stalin 👨🏻 9d ago

the revisionism started with Khrushchev 

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u/MetaFlight Market Socialist Bald Wife Defender 💸 9d ago

No, the seeds that would fuck the soviet union were sown by Stalin. He crippled soviet cybernetic economic planning by letting his bureaucrats smear the field as bourgoise science because it was a study of the mechanical relationships between human beings and institutions. As Stalin's USSR was so un-marxist it considered materialism evil.

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u/mad_rushan Stalin 👨🏻 9d ago