What’s Communist about China?
Happy New Year! This reflection on China comes from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam where we enjoyed ourselves last night with lots of beer and locals in the park. Before arriving in China, I had been thinking about a certain question; what does Communism look like? Additionally, what is it like for Chinese people living in communism? Will it be obviously different than the capitalistic places I’ve visited and lived? This post answers these questions with my observations of visiting China for 30 days. I’ve also done a little research into what exactly is Communist about China. I think it’s important to start with what I thought Communism would look like. The utopian Communist society, in my mind, would consist of everyone having the same amount of “stuff”. Same house, same food, same car, socialized health care, etc. However, in reality, it always seemed that people would instead be motivated to do as little work as possible. In this utopian scenario, if you worked 100 hours a week
