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President Xi Jinping (China) Becomes President for Life
| After taking power in 2012, Mr. Xi used an anticorruption campaign to purge rivals and concentrate power in his hands, breaking the post-Mao convention that power should be shared among a group of leaders loyal to different factions. China’s elite politics has since reverted to a winner-takes-all contest, as Deng feared. Mr. Xi has created a Mao-style cult of personality, most recently granting himself the title of lingxiu, a term for a supreme leader not used in four decades.
| According to Xinhua, the decision to allow Mr. Xi to stay on after 2023 was made at a Communist Party meeting last month. The fact that it was not announced in the official report at the end of the meeting suggests the move is controversial and there is still resistance to Mr. Xi’s power grab.
| This week the Party’s Central Committee will meet again to pick which officials will serve in important posts weeks before the country’s rubber-stamp legislature is due to meet and appoint them, again a sign of infighting.
| It’s still not clear what effect Mr. Xi’s increasing power will have on economic policy. Reformist adviser Liu He was promoted to the Politburo last October and is now tipped to become a vice premier as well as governor of China’s central bank. Mr. Liu is also due to visit Washington this week to discuss tensions over the lack of reciprocity in economic relations.
| But it’s worth remembering that Mr. Xi broke his previous promises to restart economic reforms over the last five years. His political drive to increase control over all aspects of society overrode Mr. Liu’s worthy agenda of giving greater scope to market forces.
| As the state takeover of Anbang Insurance last Friday shows, dangerous imbalances have built up in the financial system due to stimulus policies that require excessive debt, endangering China’s economic development.
| Xinhua claims that Mr. Xi is leading China into a new era of prosperity and strength. But behind the facade of unity, political struggles continue. By making himself essentially President for Life, Mr. Xi has made Chinese politics more volatile and unpredictable.
| https://www.wsj.com/articles/xi-jinping-president-for-life-1519598379
| Nice
| Another fascist capitalist regime under red banner is born
| With this, China shoots its future in the foot, I think.
| >>172402
Why choose? That g/u/rl recognized it. >>171797
Fascism is coorporate totalitarism. You're the uninformed one here.
| Sincerely hope other countries don't start following suite
| A little bit afraid
| Caesar did the same 2000 years ago. The gratest enemy of a rule that brings a ruler in power, is this person changing the rule to not fall out of power, by authority given already from the same rule.
It has happened before, it happens now, it will happen again.
| China kinda had a good thing going on, and they fuck it up with this, mao 2.0
| >>174349
Well the thing is, that Mao (like the most „communist“ dictators) did not rule over an industrialized and prospering country. China was suffering from beeing a backwarded feudal society, colonization and WW2 when mao and his commies took over control. Communist ideas originally never were about overcoming feudalism and establish industry. This was ment to be done by the capitalists and their bourgeoisie. Commies in China were even more wrong in time than in russia.
| >>174641
This was something ppl like Mao did not manage to deal with. The only thing they manage to establish is Totalitarism. Under Deng Xiaoping China became a estate-capitalist economy, which economically still is very successful and shows that capitalism goes pretty well along with totalitarism.
But somwhere deep in the „communist party“ there may still exist the spirit of marxism and more of maoism in theory, but more important, in government critical movements they grow.
| >>174657 The biggest threat ironically the current Chinese Communist Party faces is Maoist communists who are very critical of China becoming more and more capitalist with wider and wider inequality.
| >>174657
This time China fits much more into the state of development that is ready for a transformation to communism. Ironically in China the „communist“ party reprents the bourgeois/capitalist class, opressing all the nonehaves living from their work.
The question is how much aware are the current „communist“ rulers about the situation and what are their plans to do?
What everyone should concern is that also in china nationalism grows and military capacities are increased.
| "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" is just another name for fascism
| >>174664
The thing is, that referring to maoism is kinda stupid, because it was not really the brightest epoch in China due to its misinterpretation of what marx was about.
| >>174669 tell that to Maoists which for some reason are the stronhest communist current in the West
| >>174674
You mean the west of China?
Because in Europe I never met anyone who proudly proclaims beeing maoist. There are some stalinists, but they're just a small group that sucks dicks of bourgeois reactionism/totalitarism.
| >>174720 there are strong Maoist groups in Philippines, India and some in S. America. In Europe most are either stalinist or undefined eurocommunist
| In China of you say you are Maoist most people would think you are behind the times nostalgic etc.
| >>172451 I have read all sorts of literature about fascism from fascist leaders and philosophers, and I can confirm that none of them were capitalist in any sense, and outright hated it, you are the uninformed one here.
| >>175024 fascists claimed that they aren't capitalist but that was just straight up lie. In both Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany biggest support for fascist policies came from rich ultra conservative
| >>175024
Well the thing is that fascist leaders and "philosophers" don't proclaimed basis democratic socialization of the means of production. And in practice they sucked capitalists cocks to lead their people in stupid wars against each other and constructed enemys, like the most prominent and absurd delusion of a jewish world conspiracy that supposedly using communism and capitalism to destroy the masterrace or other non-existent ideology things.
| >>175024
Oh, citing mussolini himself:
>Fascism should be called "corporatism", because it is the perfect fusion of government and corporation.
In practice this also happened mostly also to "communist" regimes, but it never was the intension of former communist theorists (and most basis representatives) that the government should be a militarist dictatorship, while in fascism it is essential part of the ideology.
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| China will amend its constitution to allow Presidents to serve more than two terms, the state-run news agency Xinhua announced Sunday. The change is momentous because it confirms Xi Jinping has become the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. He is abolishing term-limit rules and other norms that Deng Xiaoping created in the 1980s to prevent a repeat of Mao’s disastrous rule.