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Originally Posted by elphenor
it was supposed to take place in an already industrialized late-stage capitalist Western European country
and while the Great Leap Forward didn't succeed, it did change the course of China
I guess we'll never know, but I'm not convinced that if instead the more democratic capitalist party would have won out over Mao, that China would have been able to compete with the West
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the best thing it did for them was to convince them to ditch collectivisation and go with the global capitalist market.