Anthony Costa wrote: > The continuity lies in China having solved the basic problems of education, health, inequality (land reforms), and relative gender equality in these. Deng Xiaoping's policies may have been a break from auturky and small scale production but he could not have moved forward had those earlier accomplishments not existed. <
Yes, the later writing of William Hinton also attests to the solution of those problems, plus the tremendous construction done before and during the Cultural Revolution: terraced land, irrigation works and other water management facilities in the countryside; the first large steel, oilfield and other industrial plants; and more. The Deng group seized these achievements and fed them into capitalist relations of production, proceeding with both pragmatism and caution in contrast to the bluster of Khrushchev and the lurch to open oligarchy by Gorbachev and Yeltsin. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
