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   "text": "Centralization is a powerful mechanism for rapidly building an efficient organization aimed at solving one specific problem, such as war in pre-unified China.",
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   "text": "The centralized hierarchy built by the Chinese Communist Revolution was extremely successful at the military goal it was designed for, but once the military threat was gone it failed completely at solving other important problems, producing catastrophic reforms such as the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.",
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