The Chinese may have taken more people out of extreme poverty than any other culture in the history of the world, but then they had a VERY much larger pool of people in extreme poverty than any other country has ever had. And for that matter, they STILL have more people in extreme poverty than any nation today.
There may be pockets of the world where depth of poverty is greater than any in China, but then, those regions are marked by even lower literacy rates and access to resources.
China uses a lot of SLAVE labor. That is not taking anyone out of poverty but the slave owners. Bernie is a dum arse.
In China, those people probably go stand in a line all day to come home with a bag of rice and a liter of milk...when it's their day to get rice. There are no choices, no convenience, nothing more than a meager subsistence.
Those same Chinese are probably living in huts and in 400 square-foot flats on top of each other, dimly lit with some small appliance bulb.
In the US, our people in "poverty" have debit cards to essentially buy healthy foods from whatever their local supermarket is. Whether or not they do, or whether or not they blow it on less healthy foods is up to them. They have apartments and housing--again, most don't appreciate it because they get most things from some government program or another.
Our US anti-poverty programs encourage generational living from the teat of government...these are Bernie people. They know nothing else.
Bernie is right, for once.
Mao's Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries, Mao's Great Leap Forward and the resulting Great Chinese Famine, his Cultural Revolution, Tibet, Tiananmen Square, and the rest accounted for 50 million to 65 million dead - people that Chinese communism took out of poverty . . . the hard way.
Is he counting the millions they killed?
Bourgeois Bernie has a plan...
The “independent”...LIAR....almost 20 years as a fraud in the body politic. Go home crazy B.S.
they have taken more people out of extreme poverty than any country in history?”
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Right out of poverty and straight into either prison or the grave.
After Mao died, Deng Tsaioping (sp?) took over.
Deng was vilified by the Maoists & his fanatical Red Guards as a capitalist roader who betrayed Mao’s communist revolution.
And he did— by allowing a reintroduction of western investment and profit-driven production, and opening China to competitive trade with the west.
It was Mao who drove the Chinese masses to starvation, and Deng who rescued them.
Which proves our point, and destroys Bernie’s.
It wasn’t Mao’s socialism that lifted the Chinese out of poverty. It was western capitalism post Mao.
Socialism (which is an *economic* system) and communism (which is socialism’s ruling *political* system) will fail EVERY TIME and need capitalism to bail them out EVERY TIME.
We need to know our history well enough to counter the Bernie-bots.