I keep on getting deflected off to like the western news sites for information about China and then it’s just the news site demonizing the country. I was just wondering coming from like a Marxist point of viewpoint figuring probably this would be the best place to look for some thing even probably neutral about China. Does anyone have good information about how the government is run along with accurate numbers of the death in the great leap forward that isn’t some kind of “100 million deaths under communism “type argument, or even like claim also, it would be also good to list if you’re interested in helping me sites about what was achieved in the great leap forward and in the rapid industrialization also consequences of that primarily anything environmental if there’s anything about the consequences also some decent information about censorship and what exactly is Chinese censorship? What is it look like and is it really that hard big or even what exactly is it censoring I don’t know too much about it and I would like to

  • Chickenstalker@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    China has stopped being communist since the early 90s. The Great Leap forward so utterly destroyed China’s economy that it then defected to oligarch-controlled capitalism.

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      1 year ago

      do you know any good sources on like how many people died during that period of the great leap forward and is there like a reliable source I can look at