1. Prior to my conceptualization of the Work-Standard, can a nation maintain a decently high standard of living relying only on whatever resources that exist within its own borders?
2. Are certain lifestyle choices the result of socioeconomic conditions stemming from Neoliberalism?
3. Should the Council State promote, whenever possible, healthier lifestyles beyond their obvious fiscal implications for its own Stage Budget?
4. When sizeable segments of a Totality are scattered beyond the international borders of their homeland as the result of diaspora, do they exist as autonomous people’s communities or are they always considered members of another Totality?
5. Assuming there are elements of a Totality constituting themselves as a people community of Foreigners in another nation, are they bound to the laws of their ancestral homeland’s State or the State which governs the lands that they currently dwell? If it is the former, are the People’s Party supposed to allow them to participate within its Council Democratic process? If it is the latter, are the laws governing a diaspora preemptible by the Judiciary of the other State?
6. If the Council State finds that it is necessary to encourage the diaspora to return to their ancestral homeland, should they be invited back through offers of educational and employment opportunities?
7. Going back to an earlier discussion I alluded to in The Third Place, is it possible for cities with population sizes ranging between 180,000 and 5,000,000 to provide at least half of their basic necessities without relying on outlying Municipalities, towns and villages?
8. Are certain countries more predisposed toward one version of Pure Socialism (be it Artistic or Scientific) than another version or Neoliberalism? If so, is this predisposition driven by the higher levels of urbanization and industrialization, as suggested by Marx and Engels or is it the reverse (q.v. Czarist Russia and Qing China)?
9. Assuming that Marx and Engels were incorrect that the rise of Production for Profit requires sustained urbanization and industrialization, does the settlement of frontiers and backcountry necessitate going from Feudalism to Socialism, thereby skipping the need to tolerate Capitalism?

A lot of these questions were already being raised in the historical discourse of Pan-Germanic Socialism’s theoreticians. I personally feel that some of them can be reapplied to the context of Mainland China, from the reigns of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping to more recent times. Chinese Civilization is vast and there are diasporas outside Mainland China. A recurring argument for the economic reforms was that Mainland China was not yet ready to foster Pure Socialism and that establishing the “Socialist Market Economy” was justified to build the path to Pure Socialism by enduring the motions of Production for Profit.

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