China's last Maoist village - 25 June 2008

China's booming economy is constantly making headlines and the country's adoption of its own form of capitalism is a far cry from its Maoist past.

That old ideology is still trying to exist in one corner of China in a village called Nanjie. Tony Cheng reports.

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[Foreverx1918x]

Communism is a wonderful form of government!

[12valvepower1]

non profit charity state. everyone works. everyone eats

[theMadMarxist]

@GlobalAlternateMedia

Ofcourse China and Russia never became Communist - they were 3rd world nations, they needed to industrialize the nations and progress the forces of production. Also in Mao's case he saw it as important to change the superstructure i.e. Mao thought class struggle, culture and ideology as very important and this is obvious in his efforts to revolutionize every part of Chinese Society. However both nations lost their way through corruption and revisionism.

[GlobalAlternateMedia]

@issareign

Communism doesn't work on small scale (see Kropotkin's Small Communal Experiments and Why They Fail). Communism requires the abolition of money and commodity production consequently it requires world communism.

Communism is by its very definition stateless, the USSR nor China were ever stateless. Nanjie is not communist either.

[issareign]

it may work in isolated incidences. but on a mass scale, communism is a horror show.

[saigonpunkid]

@Eidikodinamitis Greek is a disaster already

[GilesFarnabyChess]

@Foreverx1918x In which communist country are you living actually?

[Eidikodinamitis]

The USSR makes a change from above and the result was a social disaster. At the same time China change from under and the result was a disaster because of free trade for capitalist’s countries.

14 hours works in Greece, Portugal, or you are a homeless, in western countries. How many millions of homeless live in USA? our Meka of civilisation.

[StarOfFortune]

@12valvepower1 everyone works 14 hours a day.everyone eats 2 times a day

[datzfast]

@Foreverx1918x its working out pretty good for you right?

[ManjuSu]

@UDSS It was like that with every "Communist" leader.

[ZLUGGO]

@UDSS

Capitalism does not work. Hence I am unemployed.