If Stalin was against Bukharin he would’ve been against Deng. I see too many people glazing red social democracy. The DTOB is wearing the skin of the DTOP and people are falling for it.
If Stalin was against Bukharin he would’ve been against Deng. I see too many people glazing red social democracy. The DTOB is wearing the skin of the DTOP and people are falling for it.
Taking issue with private sector growth demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the setup of the economy and the point of said secondary sector. Emerging, underdeveloped industries naturally require flexible capital for trial and error, this is an objective law. As long as the state firmly controls the lifelines of finance, energy, communications, transportation, and heavy industry, (The commanding heights), private sector growth merely serves state-led socialist construction.
As for your belief that modern computing and cybernetics can solve the input-output problems of light industry, this technological utopianism is utterly naive. Even assuming unlimited computing power, computing was never the only bottleneck to the shortage of light industry in the Soviet Union. Research and development time, skilled labor, and supply chain infrastructure, among others, these material factors cannot be created by code. Faced with massive and rapidly changing consumer demand, the market itself is an extremely efficient distributed information processing mechanism. Ignoring the objective advantages of decentralized production and insisting on a unified planned directive is not materialism.
Your statement that development by 2026 is sufficient reveals how impoverished your understanding of the realities of China is. China is still in, and will remain for a time in, the primary stage of socialism. Per capita productivity, regional development imbalances, and the bottlenecks in core technologies clearly show us that productivity is far from reaching a level where market mechanisms can be completely abolished.
From the time of Marx himself Marxists have understood the importance of utilizing a secondary market and private capital to develop socialist construction. If you can only react with moral knee-jerk reactions to different modes of production, failing to understand their benefits, drawbacks, and the historical continuity leading to each superseding the next, then you’d be better off not calling yourself a Marxist.