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To: MtnClimber
Chiang Kai-shek favored state capitalism and government owned businesses. In his biography of Chiang JBS founder Robert Welch admitted that Chiang was still (at that time) a socialist of sorts (socialism being one of Sun Yat-sen's "Three Principles of the People"). But that didn't stop the "paleos" from supporting him.

But they were opposed to supporting Israel because Israel was "socialist!"

18 posted on 08/20/2025 7:39:26 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים ואת הארץ)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
Chian Kai-shek's ideology was more distributist than socialist. His goal was to make as many Chinese (in theory) property owners as possible so that they would have at least a small stake in the nation rather than being de facto serfs. His view was that whether you're a worker on a collectivized farm owned by the government or on a farm owned by a private corporation, you have no real agency or autonomy.

Western distributists like Chesterton and Belloc were saying the same thing, though I don't know if they directly influenced Chiang Kai-shek or if he simply converged on the same ideas.

24 posted on 08/20/2025 12:15:41 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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