In a manner of speaking, so did Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.
Good goddamned thing so many of us fought Communism during the Cold War....only to see it take root in the highest levels of our government and business.
Time for another revolution.
We are living in a Kafka novel.
That Joe Stalin! He really had it all figured out, didn't he?
What the PRC practices is more like classical Fascism as defined by Mussolini - still, it a left-wing kookdoodle dream none the less.
oh yeah, slave labor, these people are demons
Fascist Italy worked—the trains ran on time.
I these out of executives who think they know what is best for us. And Jeffery boy was big into outsourcing jobs overseas too !
Perhaps Mr.Immelt Wishes to add to the 110 million?
There was a time when this would have gotten him fired. No longer. Right now, Keith Ellison could yell out “Death to America! Alluah Akbar!” in Congress, and no one would even blink.
“Their government works...”
lol.
You won’t see them having opposition parties. Dissent can mean a death sentence.
Liberal wet dreams
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Murder and the threat of murder does have a way of keeping the people in line.
Well since no one is stopping them (or seems to care) why not?
what a blithering ass
It is really rather silly to call the present Chinese system communism. To be sure, that’s what they still call it, but names don’t make it so. All those Democratic Peoples Republics were none of those things.
Any system with many aspects of a free market economy, not to mention private property millionaires and billionaires, isn’t communist in any logical sense of the term.
Totalitarian, fascist, statist, murderous, oppressive, kleptocratic, and lots of other negative adjectives. But not communist.
It’s actually much closer to the traditional Chinese system of control by the mandarins, with scholar-officials replaced by Party members. And now with Mao gone they don’t really have the equivalent of an Emperor, so the mandarins are running a collective system of control. This never worked before in 2000+ years of Chinese history. An Emperor was needed to keep the mandarins’ corruption from getting completely out of control, which is what I suspect will happen.
North Korea, with its 3rd-generation hereditary God-King, is even farther from communism.
Elites: too lazy to design a business model where they can bring products to market, employ free men as labor and where everybody wins.
Instead, Serfdom, 2012, and the free men in America have no jobs, which is destroying the greatest consumer marketplace in the history of the world: America.
Feudalism -> Slavery -> Immigration -> Outsourcing.
This is why Traditional Judeo-Christian Small Business is best.
Seems like this is the same stuff I always hear from supporters of Free Trade with Communist China....I mean, if you still support Free Trade with Communist China, you pretty much like Communism anyway