China’s gonna be a phenomenal world leader.

  • Ildsaye [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Yes, that’s what China did. They also used media control to blanket the nation in antisexist messages from the moment the PRC was established, but chattel marriage customs only really began to break down in areas where factory work was available - the wage work allowed women to be financially independent from their clans for the first time. Even establishing dictatorship of the proletariat doesn’t mean immediate freedom from the harsh contradictions of being a developing country.