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Ask the average Hong Konger if they prefer the capitalistic system they were in before or the communistic system they’re headed towards. Most I know prefer the former.
Wait! I forgot they don’t have free speech anymore.
China is communism. It might not live up to the all the rainbow unicorn fantasy dreams of a system where workers owns the means of the production and all the yada yada, but it’s communism.
You might as well list all spheres with edges, languages without grammar and all people arguing on random articles about communism that know the definition of communism.
That’s an over-simplification. Marx’s stateless society was a prediction of the natural outcome of a post-capitalist world and is probably the most utopian aspiration of the philosophy.
Communism does not mean “no government”. You need a government. Or rather, whatever system of decision-making and distribution emerges is the government. Any form of cooperation and collective agreement is government. Don’t tell the anarchists, they won’t get it.
It doesn’t have to be heirarchal in the same way but ultimately if you live in a society then at some point someone is going to tell you what to do.
Ask the average Hong Konger if they prefer the capitalistic system they were in before or the communistic system they’re headed towards. Most I know prefer the former.
Wait! I forgot they don’t have free speech anymore.
The point is their both capitalist
If your average HKer doesn’t know that just like you don’t know it then that doesn’t make it true
The change is democracy to autocracy
TIL China is not communist.
China is communism. It might not live up to the all the rainbow unicorn fantasy dreams of a system where workers owns the means of the production and all the yada yada, but it’s communism.
How do you figure then?
Look, this thing might not be literally the one definition what I’m saying it is has, but it is what I say it is anyway because I say so.
Please list all communist governments that did not turn to be authoritarian
Here’s a full list of all “communist governments” that weren’t misusing the term “communist” from the start:
Name a communist government
The Cree did pretty well prior to European intervention
Cuba. The U.S fucked it up with sanctions.
You might as well list all spheres with edges, languages without grammar and all people arguing on random articles about communism that know the definition of communism.
Communism is a system where the means of production are owned by the state. And is the exact opposite of capitalism. China is not communist.
Communism isn’t a synonym for a bad government.
Owned by the people not the state
Communism doesn’t really have government because that would put people above others
That’s an over-simplification. Marx’s stateless society was a prediction of the natural outcome of a post-capitalist world and is probably the most utopian aspiration of the philosophy.
Communism does not mean “no government”. You need a government. Or rather, whatever system of decision-making and distribution emerges is the government. Any form of cooperation and collective agreement is government. Don’t tell the anarchists, they won’t get it.
It doesn’t have to be heirarchal in the same way but ultimately if you live in a society then at some point someone is going to tell you what to do.
You have people with expertise come up and say x would be best
But no one is bound to it
No.
That’s closer to socialism.
Communism is a stateless, hierarchy-less system where the people are in charge.
The state owning anything or existing is antithetical to communism.
China is without a doubt not communist, it’s purely capitalist with a strong dose of authoritarianism on top.