>>141990>Why not? What about china's history made it that it has to currently be totalitarian today? The US delt with war too. Not that the us isn't totalitarian, but, at least you need probable cause to get your door kicked in.I'll be honest and say I am not super educated about chinese history or culture, but I was somewhat exposed to it by my friends, they explained it to me as such:
China still follows the Confucian method of hierarchy as a result there is an almost paternal aspect in most situations, and especially when it comes to government, much like how you would not bad mouth your parent or teacher bad mouthing your government without legitimate concern/critique is seen as insulting as best or counter revolutionary at worst. Uprooting this culture would have been too difficult a feat for the CPC back then, and I think even if the CPC tried it now it would fail. Progress isn't the same everywhere you go and takes shape differently in each place. So I think any successful revolution would have to bend to this way of Chinese thinking, nationalist (though I doubt they would have any ideological qualms anyway), communist, social democratic, so on and so forth.