Liberal Socialism: Difference between revisions

In the 1980s, the Chinese government countered some political prisoners convicted during the Cultural Revolution, and then opened a small-scale freedom of speech. The Chinese intellectuals, represented by Wei Jingsheng, immediately carried out a lot of criticism activities against the government on the west wall of Beijing, mainly focusing on greater freedom of expression, removing official corruption, adjusting prices, and preventing inflation. However, Hu Yaobang, the implementer of the reform, was forced to resign in 1986, and then triggered a large-scale democratic movement after his death in 1989. At that time, the senior officials of the CPC Central Committee were divided into two groups, one group supported the student movement for freedom, and the other group demanded to suppress the student movement. In the end, Zhao Ziyang, the then General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, lost Deng Xiaoping's support. Liberals in the party, such as Xi Zhongxun, lost power and many people were expelled from the top of the CPC. The democratic movement in 1989 was finally bloody suppressed. Hu Yaobang's liberalization reform, as well as Hu Yaobang's own ruling ideology, is considered as a kind of free socialism, although this reform has not carried out more liberalization of the economy. The task of economic liberalization was later completed by Jiang Zemin. But at that time, the Chinese people did not live better, the problem of corruption was more serious, and the political oppression was more serious.