>>461341>Maybe nothing immediate will come of it, but it does indicate that cracks in the social cohesion and unity in China are developingcracks are always there in capitalism (and leninist socialism to a lesser extent, tho due to different reasons, bcs it has it's own social dynamic), they just get bigger and really visible in times of crisis.
Cracks really first became visible when China's real estate sector shat the bed. Obviously the first defensive instinct of the supposed """leftists""" who are actually right-socdems, is to act like an ostrich, and deny that there are any cracks.
The right-socdem theory in general, and current chinese theory in particular, postulates that one can combine major private and socialized sectors indefinitely, that some balance between the two can be kept indefinitely.
This is in major contrast to Lenin, who postulated that one can't keep this balance for a prolonged time, and neither should one try to. Left-socdems (think post ww2 labour) are in agreement with Lenin on this, tho they take a different, more constitutional, political road to achieve this.
The major resulting difference as you can see between left-wing policy and right-wing policy is a vector of the economy between these two sectors. With left-wing policy it goes more in the socialized direction with time (more accelerated with leninism, less so with left-socialdemocracy, but the general movement is in the same direction), while with the right-wing policy it goes in the opposite direction (with more or less acceleration). I don't take "no movement" in either direction as anything that can exist in real world, because societies are dynamic systems, their basic feature is reproduction. So even when apparently there is little to no change in the political realm, there is still can (and I'd say must) be underlying change in the social system.
So the current chinese right-socdem orthodoxy is challenged with the reality that you can't keep the status quo indefinitely, that both sectors start to step on each other's toes when the line starts to slow down. That conflict is inevitable.
And this simple notion is an anathema to any kind of a social contract between classes.
So right-socdems are left faced with a choice. And so far they have always chose the right.
But obviously china will not collapse. There were only two internal collapses of human societies that really happened in relative peacetime - the Roman Empire and the Soviet Union. Both of them saw the upper classes losing interest in the whole system. Which is obviously not happening in china any time soon. If it goes down - it goes down with a bloodbath, not a whimper.
But the whole post-Deng "social contract", so to speak, is obviously on its way out.