I mean in practice, in an entire state with real people. Nobody has been able to do that over the 100 years of AES history. We have enough historical evidence for this.
70 years of socialist institutions under the USSR did not make the Russians and the Ukrainians and the likes more progressive. The moment the USSR was gone, material conditions took over and all forms of reactionary fascist elements came back in seconds. Heck, even the late stage USSR was already corrupt as fuck, let’s not pretend as though it was all Gorbachev’s fault.
China also faced the same problem. After the landlords were purged, Mao noticed that it’s not the people he had to purge, but an entire deeply entrenched sociocultural norms evolved over thousands of years. Mao’s mistake was to fight a 2000-year old institution. The ancient institution fought back and won. The landlords class that he purged in the 1950s was already back the moment the liberal reforms took place. Today, it is deeply integrated into the governmental ranks. The local governments have become the new landlords, with the same excesses as the feudal landlords once did. Once you understand this, the property crisis in China today - a socialist country, I remind you - isn’t so hard to grasp at all.
Yes, one could imagine we can slowly weed that out over the next 1000 years, but anyone who understands Chinese history knows that even the current CPC reign is merely a blip through its entire history. The Chinese civilization will still be here centuries after the CPC is gone. It’s a cyclical pattern of dynastic changes that is a fundamental characteristic of the Chinese civilization unless there is a decisive, radical change that breaks the cycle. Hence, Mao’s Cultural Revolution, which failed and we go in circles here.
I mean in practice, in an entire state with real people. Nobody has been able to do that over the 100 years of AES history. We have enough historical evidence for this.
70 years of socialist institutions under the USSR did not make the Russians and the Ukrainians and the likes more progressive. The moment the USSR was gone, material conditions took over and all forms of reactionary fascist elements came back in seconds. Heck, even the late stage USSR was already corrupt as fuck, let’s not pretend as though it was all Gorbachev’s fault.
China also faced the same problem. After the landlords were purged, Mao noticed that it’s not the people he had to purge, but an entire deeply entrenched sociocultural norms evolved over thousands of years. Mao’s mistake was to fight a 2000-year old institution. The ancient institution fought back and won. The landlords class that he purged in the 1950s was already back the moment the liberal reforms took place. Today, it is deeply integrated into the governmental ranks. The local governments have become the new landlords, with the same excesses as the feudal landlords once did. Once you understand this, the property crisis in China today - a socialist country, I remind you - isn’t so hard to grasp at all.
Yes, one could imagine we can slowly weed that out over the next 1000 years, but anyone who understands Chinese history knows that even the current CPC reign is merely a blip through its entire history. The Chinese civilization will still be here centuries after the CPC is gone. It’s a cyclical pattern of dynastic changes that is a fundamental characteristic of the Chinese civilization unless there is a decisive, radical change that breaks the cycle. Hence, Mao’s Cultural Revolution, which failed and we go in circles here.