People who try to beat you over the head with ideology like “communism” this, “socialism” that, “Marxism” the other, are either missing the point themselves (sincere delusion) or are deliberately trying to delude you (insincere subversion). The relevant axes are: corruption->integrity, centralization->decentralization, authoritarianism->republicanism.

There’s another axis, but I’m not sure what to call it… visible versus occult? The former produces Congress, the latter manifests the OSS.

The unfortunate reality of the situation is that an intelligently managed command-control economy is much more efficient and effective than the Boomercon will ever admit, at least inasmuch as it matters to the interests of the state.

American (“American”) corporations could not be any more obviously the tip of the crowbar in the prying open, and subsequent dissolution, of indigenous civilizations. There is simply no way to let these organizations run loose in your country and remain meaningfully distinct as an economy, culture, society, or race.

Also, if all you do is let your people be hypnotized by movies, television, or the Internet, their minds will be colonized anyway, and no one will save them, as no one will save us,

1) One Child Poliicy: China will get old before growing rich.

2) Near term stress: Swine Disease rampant currently is destroying Chinese pigs possibly nearly en mass & armyworm of which there is no treatment is now in half of Chinese provinces.

3) Synoptic Delusion is a feature of Socialism and eventually brings down the system: Malinvestments on a grand scale.

DAn Kurt

The whole idea of a hereditary monarchy seems to assume that leadership ability is controlled by Mendelian inheritance. It isn’t. The only reason a dynasty lasts as long as it does is because the competition is also weak. Culture heroes just don’t come along all that often.

That’s really the secret of why the Allies won WWII. Democracies may not have overall better leadership cadre, but it’s not at all dependent on them in the first place–The system will throw up a Truman who will find it expeditious to raise hell about the inefficiencies in the war industries, and shine the light. That sort of thing was impossible under any of the other regime structures in that war.

Overall, it’s why I suspect China is doomed, over the long haul. And, I feel nothing good about that, at all. The day is shortly coming where every human life will be precious, and matter; the sad fact is that the Chinese are going to crash and burn because of their policies, and take most of the region they control down with them. It’s not an assessment I make gladly, either–In sorrow, I mourn what could have been. Their self-destruction is inevitable, like some kind of romantic opera.

One of the consequences of a politically powerful middle class is that while it may limit the power of genius politicians it also mitigates the effects of foolish ones. China has no such buffer mechanism.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/19thcpcnationalcongress/2017-11/04/content_34115212.htm

Scroll 40% down to section V. Those of us who think of socialism and communism as being antithetical to market economics can feel our heads explode. Exactly what the hell does the sub-section head, “Accelerating efforts to improve the socialist market economy” mean?

But, yeah, maybe China isn’t the most likely place in the world to see license plates like New Hampshire’s, “Live free or die”.

Traditional economic activity, on the other hand, embraces chaos, lives with it, adapts to it, and can handle the rate of change. The Chinese are doomed, because of this control impulse they’ve always had; you go back and look at the history of the Chinese nation, and that’s been true of every dynastic collapse. They preferred control to dynamism; look at the fate of Zheng Ho for a perfect example. The Chinese could have been the ones sailing into the Mediterranean rather than the Portuguese going to them first. But, what happened? The eunuchs chose to exert control, and Zheng Ho’s fleets were scuttled, and they even destroyed the capability to build such ships, which were exponentially more advanced than European ships at the time were.

China is going to collapse again, and I will wager it will be for the same reasons: The control freaks running the whole show. You can’t control or manage an economy; it’s a fractal nightmare of factors which are utterly beyond anyone’s real ability to even conceptualize, let alone make work.

Good grief… If Walmart can’t tell exactly how many men’s briefs they’re going to need to have on hand for sale in Minot, North Dakota over the next year, what hope have the Chinese bureaucrats for determining how much steel they will need?

The traditional economic methods didn’t come up by accident; they reflect the iron laws of reality, as worked out by generations of human beings. Some idiot 19th Century intellectuals certainly didn’t manage to come up with a concept capable of supplanting them, let alone one that is superior.

Communism and Socialism are both hubristic as hell; both are doomed to destruction whenever some fool determines to enact them in this world, rather than leave them as intellectual exercises for the foolish teenager.