An Exemplary Social Experiment:
When confronting the enigma of the Chinese planet,too many Westerns have forgotten the Asiatic background and painful colonial history. But when the Communists came to power in 1949 the vast majority of the country carried on as it had been doing for the past 2000 years,in wn early Iron Age economy. And on countless occasions during our visits to the agricultural communes we were proudly told:
'Here we didn't even have the life of the oxen and horses!'
Early Comaprison of China to Russia:
Compared to China in 1949 Russia in 1917 did not have the grim inheritance of a century of a shattering multi-colonial experience.
Russia never suffered China's fate of such a sharp and pervasive Western Impact that it was forced together with many other Asiatic civilizations into a kind of national schizophrenia not just in terms of a split economy,but above all in terms of a split culture and a split personality.
In China the individual has been rescued from the aftermath of this unfortunate heritage by the newfound companionship,common purpose and discipline of mass-organization. Just as the Vietnamese have withstoof American technology so the ascetic militant Chinese have gone straight to the roots of the problems that have plagued Asian countries for thousands of years- the lack of food and low levels of nutrition,gross inequalities of income and consumption, unemployment and a sense of social uselessness,and the blind expansion of the cities.
Decentralized Economy:
Economic decentralisation, which is perhaps the important step in Chinese domestic policy since the Great Proletarian cultural Revolution. has freed China from a traditionally cumbersome bureaucracy and developed local enterprise to the greatest possible degree ’of independence. ‘The 26 Chinese provinces, which are as much as even 4,400 kilometres apart, could for that matter, subsist on their own in the event of war. while anybody invading the country would be literally drowned in a Sea of people. ‘ ‘
The Chinese model cannot be analysed according to its differences from the Western system. It involves an utterly different approach. It is the creation of a new world and a new man. The cities show an absenSe of automobiles (which is "neither backwardness nor. delay, but a rejection." to quote Robert 'Guillain), advertising; neon signs, and the three fevers of money, alcohol and sex.Political control over the masses not only stops the exodus from the countryside,but even manages partly to reduce the populations of cities.
Importance of Things other than GNP:
The gigantic Chinese social experiment does not only concern Asia however, but the West too, which has always claimed to have found the final answer to the problem of man and civilization. For years the Chinese have been striving to make the world realise, through their official interpreter and personal friend of Mao, Edgar Snow, that there are other important things in life besides an increase in GNP.
#Note:
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