Core socialist values (1)

Oh, I see these on posters with traditionally dressed fat children on the walls around construction sites. I seem to notice them more in Chengdu than Beijing. It’s good to see them all together, and I suddenly noticed: is prosperity really a “value”? And, perhaps apart from “harmony,” aren’t these all liberal democratic values? One wonders how they are distinctively “socialist.”

Charles Laughlin <charleslaughlin@virginia.edu>

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