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China says Western democracy has reached its limits and has started to deteriorate (alluding to Donald Trumps victory without saying so). Global Communism will take its place, with China supplying new universal values.

When I have referred to still-Communist China, some readers have said, in effect, are you kidding? China has become capitalist, what with all of their entrepreneurs and wealth-building. But orthodox Marxism teaches that societies must go through a capitalist phase in order for socialism to emerge. The problem with the Soviet Union and Maos China is that they attempted to go from a feudal economy straight to socialism, which cant really work. Capitalism and with it Western democracy will eventually fall from theirinternal contradictions.

China has come up with a style of Communism that is working, pragmatically. It is centered on economic growth, but state ownership and, what is just as effective, state control of the means of production continues.

Whats new here is Chinas plan to export not just its goods but its ideology around the world. The Communists still think they will bury us.

From China Slams Western Democracy as Flawed, Bloomberg:

Democracy has reached its limits, and deterioration is the inevitable future of capitalism, according to the Peoples Daily, the flagship paper of Chinas Communist Party. It devoted an entire page on Sunday to critiquing Western democracies, quoting former Chairman Mao Zedongs 1949 poem asking people to range far your eyes over long vistas and saying the ultimate defeat of capitalism would enable Communism to emerge victorious.

The unusual series of commentaries in the Peoples Daily mirrors Soviet efforts to promote an alternative political and economic system during the Cold War. The rise of anti-establishment, protectionist politicians like Trump, amid populist winds on several continents, has sent political parties scurrying to shore up their support, helping China to portray itself as relatively steady. . . .

Chinas rising wealth has brought greater global presence, but thats not enough, said Zhang Ming, a political science professor at Renmin University in Beijing. The Communist leaders want that someday China will matter globally for the nature of its political system and create its own universal values.. . .

The Peoples Daily also used Trumps inauguration weekend to tout the benefits of Chinas political system. The emergence of capitalisms social crisis is the most updated evidence to show the superiority of socialism and Marxism, it said.

Western style democracy used to be a recognized power in history to drive social development. But now it has reached its limits, said another article on the same page. Democracy is already kidnapped by the capitals and has become the weapon for capitalists to chase profits.

Illustration from Andrew Kitzmiller, Creative Commons

Read more:
China pushing Communism to replace failing Democracy - Patheos (blog)