Eric Zuesse
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Mao is genuinely popular and loved by most Chinese, and statues are not uncommon nor regarded as a sign of "cult of personality", as intimated in the West. Mao, who understood the Chinese people better than most, blended Confucian and Communist values in what is now known as "Socialism with Chinese charaterisitics".
PRELIMINARY, TO DEFINE “SOCIALISM”:
The present report is based upon that website’s numbers as of the morning of December 13th.
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Most people on a bus wearing a mask, Hubei province, 23 January 2020. (Wikimedia)
China’s unemployment rate has consistently, every month, been below 6.25% throughout the pandemic, whereas America’s peaked at 14.7% in April 2020 and declined to 6.7% by the end of that year. So, even from a strictly economic standpoint, socialism was more effective than libertarianism was, during the pandemic. The same was also true in other countries.
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