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To: Restorer
The present Chinese system has little about it that is Communist except the name.

Nonsense. The political structure of their state is Leninist.

The philosophical world view is still hardcore Marxist.

5 posted on 01/27/2005 1:08:30 PM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: tallhappy

China may be Marxist in name, as I said, but it is no longer so in fact. Any nation with thousands of millionaires is no longer Communist in any logical sense of the term.

Communism, in its essence, is anti-capitalism, more than anything else, as the entire longing for true socialism is based on the desire for genuine equality, which capitalism destroys by its very nature.

The Chinese are becoming enthusiastic capitalists, in practice if not yet in name.

What do you consider the hallmarks of a specifically Communist state, as opposed to a more generic authoritarian or totalitarian one? In other words, what makes a state Commie rather than just undemocratic?


7 posted on 01/27/2005 1:27:47 PM PST by Restorer
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