[super175]

"Capitalism" in China is only a way to make the CCP rich. The saying that I heard was something like "the CCP used to fight for power. Now they have power but realized they were all poor...in the end they want both money AND power."

THAT is Chinese capitalism. It is unlike our version of it where the 'capitalism' starts at the grass roots with personal rights and entrepreneurship at is core.

Anything other than the above definition is a daydream and wrong.

[Lake]

>>the Communist Party (whether or not they live up to the title of 'communist' is a whole different matter)is absolutely right no matter what.

No, the CCP has publicly recognized and apologized for the mistakes in the past. That means teh CCP knows it is not 100% right.

>>No one else can have power of any kind EXCEPT for the Party.

In the market economy the power comes from the wealth. As the capitalists join in the party, the power is shifting from the "woking class" to the "oppersssive class".

You can say whatever it is that you say as long as it does not challenge the Party.

>>potential challengers are mowed down.

It depends on how you challenge. Deng Xaioping challenged Maoism and he succeeded.

>>It is unlike our version of it where the 'capitalism' starts at the grass roots with personal rights and entrepreneurship at is core.

If you examine the history of PRC's capitalism, it did start from the grass roots. It began with the privitization of land of a villige in 1978 when the party members risked their lives to distribute the land to the peasants.