Why China Seeks ‘National Rejuvenation’ through the Path of Socialism?

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Why China Seeks ‘National Rejuvenation’ through the Path of Socialism?        China, along with Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea and Laos are today the only nation-states that adhere to the Marxist-Leninist thought as its guiding state ideology. Yet, it is just an accident of history that China chose Marxism as its governing ideology. To begin with, when the Qing dynasty was overthrown in 1911, Chinese nationalist preferred to organize themselves politically along the established lines of western political philosophy, republican-constitutionalism and democracy. But this political experiment failed to gain traction with the Chinese people who were for over two millennia ruled by imperial dynasties with Confucianism as its state ideology. This made Chinese people remain unaware of the rights and unprepared for responsibility that comes along with the practice of democracy. On 17 October, 1917 Russian radicals known as the Bolsheviks (soon renamed Communists) carried out “the Great October Socialist Revolution”…