“Capitalism continues under fascism, but not under communism.”
You may not have heard of this one communist nation called “the Peoples Republic of China”. It’s kind of small, you may not have heard of it.
And there’s another single party Communist country called Vietnam.
Both are rather famous for their capitalism and have many
privately owned businesses.
Your example falls apart. There is always this destructive desire to pretend that Nazis are some sort of an anti communist. Its a relic of cold war thinking, but nothing could be further from the truth. It’s destructive because it leads people to mistakenly see Nazis as facing a common enemy in communism.
The only thing worse than a Fascist, is an Anti-Fascist.
““Capitalism continues under fascism, but not under communism.”
You may not have heard of this one communist nation called “the Peoples Republic of China”. It’s kind of small, you may not have heard of it.
And there’s another single party Communist country called Vietnam.
Both are rather famous for their capitalism and have many
privately owned businesses.
Your example falls apart. There is always this destructive desire to pretend that Nazis are some sort of an anti communist. Its a relic of cold war thinking, but nothing could be further from the truth. It’s destructive because it leads people to mistakenly see Nazis as facing a common enemy in communism.”
My example was from the period in history under discussion.
Obviously since then communism in China and Vietnam has departed from those definitions, and would no longer be classified as communism.
China would be called something other than “communist” as would Russia, the eastern bloc satellites, etc.
They all took on or reverted to greater private ownership, of the factors of production.
Stronger arguments for similarities between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia could probably be made along the lines of “command economy.” BTW
We would then be talking about BMW making airplane engines as ordered by the German federal government, and GM making Volts as suggested and incentivized by the American federal government.
This makes them far more dangerous than a pure Marxist Nation.
That’s because China isn’t Communist anymore except in name. If Communism means anything at all, it means state ownership of the means of production. No country with private property millionaires and billionaires can be considered Communist in any real sense.
China is no longer communist. Communes are no more. It is more fascist now. Vietnam is going that way too.