Then China started filling them and everyone just wiped that criticism from existence like they never said it. Gotta keep our enemy looking as incompetent as a Saturday morning cartoon villain

turns out those empty cities were a really good idea once china’s urbanization boom really took off. Now there’s already houses and everything for those people where the jobs are. In socialist america we really should do something similar to handle the climate refugees, get them housed and working immediately to prepare for the next wave of migrants.

I know there is a struggle session abt whether they are a DotP or not, so Im going to ignore that to avoid getting banned for sectarianism.

You’re gonna ignore that but the rest of your comment is literally about that lmao.

China is socialist only to the extent that it’s state capitalist economy is in a ‘Transitional’ state, that’s where the debate actually lays, and the transitionalists can point to China’s radical violations of global capitalist conventions and consensus as proof of this long term “shift” toward DotP

Of course the debate is hardly settled, but what “educated economist” would look at China’s developmental strategy of regional experimental state control on the level of municipalities and conclude “yeah these folks hate economic planning and government ownership”