I’m not sure I follow, what do you imagine would happen? What’s an example? COVID is a quick example I can think of of the central government wanting more strict policies, but folding due to public pressure against it (even though the government ended up being correct).
The CPC doesn’t have a mandate from heaven, it has 100 million members in a country of 1.4 billion. It’s a party thoroughly embedded in production, local jurisdictions, and gets its policies directly from the people. Five Year Plans are the result of mass polling, as an example. When the party sepparates from the masses, it loses support, and mass protest occurs and production halts. This is rare, because the CPC is good at what it does.
Right, that’s a good example of it going the way you describe, and I’m curious what would’ve happened if the government hadn’t folded. If the people really are making the decisions, they would get their way eventually, what does that look like?
Like I said, mass protest and huge issues with the economy. The PRC isn’t a capitalist country where the state is an extension of the capitalist class, the state in the PRC is an extension of the working class, as public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy. For example, the USSR was dissolved through reform, it wasn’t a competing political party that destroyed socialism, it was caused by complex and myriad factors that the CPC has largely learned from.
I’m not sure I follow, what do you imagine would happen? What’s an example? COVID is a quick example I can think of of the central government wanting more strict policies, but folding due to public pressure against it (even though the government ended up being correct).
The CPC doesn’t have a mandate from heaven, it has 100 million members in a country of 1.4 billion. It’s a party thoroughly embedded in production, local jurisdictions, and gets its policies directly from the people. Five Year Plans are the result of mass polling, as an example. When the party sepparates from the masses, it loses support, and mass protest occurs and production halts. This is rare, because the CPC is good at what it does.
Right, that’s a good example of it going the way you describe, and I’m curious what would’ve happened if the government hadn’t folded. If the people really are making the decisions, they would get their way eventually, what does that look like?
Like I said, mass protest and huge issues with the economy. The PRC isn’t a capitalist country where the state is an extension of the capitalist class, the state in the PRC is an extension of the working class, as public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy. For example, the USSR was dissolved through reform, it wasn’t a competing political party that destroyed socialism, it was caused by complex and myriad factors that the CPC has largely learned from.