| VAMatt said: That's all well and good. But, we know objectively that communism, or whatever you want to call their current hybrid-but-still-super-authoritarian system, can't bring about prosperity in the long run. So, there isn't any glory waiting at the end of their 100, or 1000, or 10000 year time horizon. There's just oppression, suffering, and indignity on the way, and at the destination. |
@Bold History has shown this not to be true ...
The practice of widespread universal suffrage has existed for less than 200 years while the rest of humanity was effectively under so called "authoritarian rule". The Roman empire and the former British empire were not in any way equivalent to the "free world" as we knew it today and yet they were highly prosperous nations for their time which lasted for centuries so as far as I'm concerned an authoritarian system can bring about prosperity in the "long run" that you speak of ...
It is not 'ideology' that makes one nation succeed over another, it is the 'features' that are important to a nations success. In CIV terms, China has very strong foundations to emerge as both economically and technologically victorious and if their policies including this one ends up helping them produce more engineers/scientists in the end then it is arguably a success ...
It is also not just surveillance technology where China is succeeding in no matter how much people here want that to be the case since they are globally leading in wireless telecommunications infrastructure as well with Huawei ...
