>>Socialists will tell you that socialism has nothing to do with communism, or that it’s an economic, not a political system. Xi just contradicted both of these claims.
Most American “socialists” are idiots. A bunch of college professors told them that Socialism is like Christmas every day of the year. They believed it. That takes a special kind of stupid.
With high tech, non-diverse social standard and ideals, and a cooperative people, Socialism is possible. If anyone can pull it off, it’s the Chinese. In a diverse nation, it is impossible. Too many competing ideals and goals.
Nope. There’s still a God, and not even the Chinese can fight Him with socialism; that’s aside from the bloodguilt over their staggering number of abortions (last estimated at 23 million per year). Besides, the communist ideals of abolishing family and private property will eventually be reapplied, further decimating the pseudo-Utopian “cooperative”.