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> > China has very little to do with Marxist style economics these days.
>
> No argument there. but, the point I was trying to make was that there were
> many reforms taking place, at regular intervals, and in attempts to make
> improvements (including trade, industrialization, etc.).

Most likely what happened is that they saw all the failures produced
by all their Marxist style "5 year plans", and decided to reform
things more towards a partial capitalistic system via many baby steps
over several decades. The reforms seem to have had more push after
Chairman Mao died. They were probably also sick and tired of being
"sick and tired" by then, of the country moving backwards. Only baby
steps were taken probably due to the fact that they had civil unrest
on their minds constantly. A sudden change from marxism to capitalism
could have been worse, like what happened in Russia during the 1990's.

> And, if the "kids" over there decide to foment unrest (aka the democracy
> movement), and if this turns into a bandwagon, and it does not evolve
> peacefully? Somehow people are going to have to resolve the "disconnect"
> between the name and the function.

Another Tiananmen?