Poverty is not socialism: China’s poverty alleviation back on track in 2020

Poverty is not socialism: China’s poverty alleviation back on track in 2020

1 APRIL, 2020 ~ STALINSMOUSTACHE

In 1980, Deng Xiaoping observed: ‘‘Poverty is not socialism, socialism means eliminating poverty’.

In 2013, Xi Jinping was visiting a poverty-stricken village – Shibadong – among the Miao minority in Hunan province and suggested that the approach to eradicating poverty was to ‘keep track of every household and individual in poverty to verify that their treatment is having the desired effect’.

Liberating Thought, Part 3: Seeking Truth From Facts

The real problem, then, is to be locked into old ways, old dogmatisms developed under different circumstances. One might study carefully – always a useful undertaking – the texts of Marx and Engels, or indeed Lenin, Stalin and Mao, but the risk is that one takes them as iron-clad prescriptions for all situations. Deng’s point here is that such an approach is actually a betrayal of Marxism, for the key is the method itself rather than the specific results arising from the method in specific situations.
— Read on stalinsmoustache.org/2020/02/17/liberating-thought-part-3-seeking-truth-from-facts/