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CCP: we’re stupid, it was the economy

November 20, 2008 peijin

I was reading an essay on People.com.cn about another essay: Here is what the People essay says about the original, which was written by aguy from one Zhou Tianyong, a scholar at the Party School*: 文章总结说，由于革命胜利后，党没有从一个工作中心为阶级斗争的“革命党”转变为一个工作中心为经济建设的执政党，对怎样搞社会主义经济建设并不熟悉，学习了苏联模式，而且在资源配置方式上实行了计划经济，生产资料所有制形式上采取了一大二公的国有制、城镇集体所有制和农村人民公社社队体制，在对外关系上走了自我封闭的道路，发展上倾斜于国防工业和重工业。其结果是劳动生产效率较低，科技人员和企业没有创新和技术进步的动力来源，技术进步缓慢，投资建设浪费较大，与整个世界各国经济社会发展的差距越来越大。可以这样评价：建国后的30年里，在全球经济社会发展的竞争中，我们走了弯路，延误了时机。 Which more or less … Continue reading →

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China, universal values, democracy

June 24, 2008 peijin

Skimming the Chinese media, I’ve seen a lot of cyber ink spilled on the issue of a debate on “universal values” that erupted between the Southern (Nanfang) group newspapers (don’t know off the top of my head which one of … Continue reading →

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