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We are often told in the "west" that China is no longer Communist nor even Marxist. The refrain from those who have lived, worked, or traveled there is that its "more capitalist than the US" and that "there's nothing Communist about the PRC today." In a practical sense, to those oblivious to the fundamental ideas behind modern Chinese Communist thought, it may very well appear that way. However, this is not at all correct.
China is and remains fundamentally Marxist (and I don't mean this in a bad sense). They simply live in the real world and understand that any philosophy must live in the present, adapt to and modify itself to contemporary needs. This began, of course, with Deng's market reforms in the 1980s, but has evolved into an even more impressive molding of Communism with Chinese Characteristics, as Mao put it, with modern global realities and economic needs. The synthesis of these ideas has helped lead to the Chinese economic miracle and has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, as well as allowed the Communism with a Chinese Character to survive in a changing world in a way that the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe couldn't. In that sense, we can expect the Communist Party to remain in power in China for many more decades.
The basic doctrine of Chinese Communism today centers on an idea known as The Three Represents, summarized as:
China is and remains fundamentally Marxist (and I don't mean this in a bad sense). They simply live in the real world and understand that any philosophy must live in the present, adapt to and modify itself to contemporary needs. This began, of course, with Deng's market reforms in the 1980s, but has evolved into an even more impressive molding of Communism with Chinese Characteristics, as Mao put it, with modern global realities and economic needs. The synthesis of these ideas has helped lead to the Chinese economic miracle and has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, as well as allowed the Communism with a Chinese Character to survive in a changing world in a way that the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe couldn't. In that sense, we can expect the Communist Party to remain in power in China for many more decades.
The basic doctrine of Chinese Communism today centers on an idea known as The Three Represents, summarized as:
