RuthlessCriticism [comrade/them]

There is great disorder under heaven; the situation is excellent.

do you want all your youtube habits to be in the hands of the government?

They already are

Obviously it is a counterfactual but no serious leftist would say that China without market reforms wouldn’t have eradicated poverty, and moreover done it faster and more completely. The seeds of poverty alleviation were planted during the Maoist era; improvement in health, education improvement, and industrialization.