Communism Worked in China
- Gianna Mao 毛佳娜
- 4 days ago
- 2 min read
In 1949: Life expectancy in China was 36, by 2024 over 78 .

All the while They told us China would collapse. Every five years. Like clockwork. “Too rigid.” “Too authoritarian.” “Too top-down to innovate.” And yet—here we are.
A hundred years ago, China was colonized, carved up, starved.The West came for land, opium, silver, bodies. Now they come with warnings about “debt traps” and “freedom.”
Why? Because China didn’t collapse. It stood up.
🏗️ From famine to fusion.
In a single generation, China lifted 800 million people out of poverty.Built the world’s largest high-speed rail network.Created a solar industry the West now begs for.Launched taikonauts into space.Built entire cities out of rice fields in 10 years.
It didn’t do this through charity, luck, or capitalism.
It did it with planning. With socialism. With the Communist Party.
📉 The “free” world is declining—and it knows it.
Western economists scream “authoritarianism!”But they can’t explain why China builds while Detroit crumbles.Why Beijing has driverless trains and Los Angeles has potholes.Why China’s GDP grew five times faster than the U.S. for 30 years straight.
When China sends engineers to Africa, the U.S. sends Marines.When China builds dams, the West builds debt.When China cancels loans, they call it imperialism.
What they fear isn’t control. It’s competence.
🌏 A new world is rising.
From Jakarta to Bamako, from Caracas to Cairo, nations are choosing new partners.Not because China is perfect—but because it isn’t the West.
Because China doesn’t lecture. Because China remembers what it meant to be poor, weak, and patronized. Because China offers an alternative: sovereignty, industry, dignity.
The West had 500 years to lead the world. They led it into war, slavery, climate collapse, and billionaires.
China isn’t perfect.But it’s building. That terrifies those who only know how to destroy.
🐉 You don’t have to love China. Just watch who fears it.
The Pentagon. Wall Street. Silicon Valley.The IMF. NATO. Every man who ever called colonization “modernity.” They’re not scared of the CCP. They’re scared that socialism might actually work.That “the end of history” had a sequel.That the East is writing it.
And this time, it doesn’t need their permission.
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