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In America, the rich controls the government. In China, the government controls the rich.
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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2025
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The CPC has never been communist.
It's socialist.
The CPC is Communist as in they are a Communist party operating on Marxist understanding and analysis. The PRC is Socialist, what the CPC calls Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. Communism as the ideology, not the late-stage, stateless, classless, moneyless society bit.
If you "support" communism you are a Communist.
But if you "support" capitalism you aren't a Capitalist.
Whoever came up with this shit needs to reevaluate some things.
Yea it's extremely unintuitive, people also use Capitalist for those who support Capitalism in liberal circles so that even further ruins communication. It all ends up relying on contextual clues, which shouldn't be the basis of communication IMO.
Yea...
Its really difficult when a communism means two things and both meanings are regularly used in the same context (e.g. a comment), and why the fact that there is at least a distinction between liberalism and capitalism is nice (even if some dont know what liberalism means)
Yep, it stems more from Communism emerging as a prediction for a future society, whereas Liberalism was a post-hoc justification for a society that was already rising.