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xijiajun8 karma

Hi, professor. The democracy at work place is really a freshing idea that I have ever seen. My question is how can we practise this transformation under the current economic and political situation? Because under the current system, the more profit that corporations can make, the more competitive the corporations can get. How can co-ops compete with corporations? And under the current system, how can working class democratize the exsisting giants?Those boards and capitalists are very unlikely to volunteer to give up their company.

xijiajun2 karma

Thank you so much for your reply.

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It's in fact really a complicated topic that cannot be explained in a few minute.

To put it simple, you can compare China with other capitalist countries, such as India who have the similar situation with China 70 years ago. They are both capitalist country in fact (including China), but the disparity in economic growth is huge. In 1940s, the GDP per capita of China and India are roughly the same. But now China's GPD per capita is about 5 times of that of India.

Chinese Comunist Party did a lot things wrong no matter in Mao Zedong's communist China or in Deng Xiaoping's capitalist China. But there is one thing that Chinese Comunist Party did which is right, that the goverment of CCP are aware of the problems of the capitalism. Such as they focus on the education system that to provide a college education requiring very low tuitions, and a medicare system which is not great but affordable even for the poor people. And those turn out to be very crucial and helpful for economy development. Those are not for defending the Chinese political system but the actual solid facts.