“The hardworking state employees at China's film bureau are forever manning various regulatory levers — including which imported films they allow into the market, on what release date and against which competition — to ensure that Chinese films outperform the Hollywood interlopers overall, but also that top-line market growth for the year remains robust.”
China is a country where the government completely controls every major industry and micromanages virtually all of it, yet because China’s material wealth undercuts the propaganda that free markets (instead of heavily regulated state-directed economies) are the best working economies, I keep running into people who hilariously claim that China isn’t a socialist country. If that’s you, stop lying to yourself. LOL
2. "here we go round and round and round....socialism is this special thing" In response to Reply # 0
that you can't pin down.....because.....then you would have to say....that for some reason this country did it wrong...and that country did it wrong....but this could work the "right" way....if....IF....
3. "What is the essential characteristic of socialism?" In response to Reply # 0
I thought it was government mandated redistribution of wealth/resources. I think that does require what you describe (government control of resources) but you can have government control of resources that isn't socialism but just plain authoritarianism.
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