Western coverage of events in China is highlighting a lurch leftwards by Xi Jinping. But this misunderstands Beijing’s approach and is fuelled by dismay that Xi has not followed the path that the West wanted him to.
Stalin era industrialization carried the same level of suffering, if not more considering the fact that in the end they failed to acquire/replicate and surpass of the labor-saving methods used (and withheld) by capitalist powers. The idea is to lower the amount of labor input required as quickly as possible, if that means suffering to acquire the most advanced, capital-intensive and highest efficiency means of production so be it.
It reduces the mass of labor required for the same production outcomes - thereby reducing the mass of exploitation required for the same development. And more importantly it means socialists no longer having to be on the defensive technologically and economically.
Stalin era industrialization carried the same level of suffering, if not more considering the fact that in the end they failed to acquire/replicate and surpass of the labor-saving methods used (and withheld) by capitalist powers. The idea is to lower the amount of labor input required as quickly as possible, if that means suffering to acquire the most advanced, capital-intensive and highest efficiency means of production so be it.
It reduces the mass of labor required for the same production outcomes - thereby reducing the mass of exploitation required for the same development. And more importantly it means socialists no longer having to be on the defensive technologically and economically.
And it's ~15 years, not 100.