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brewens

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13. They call their political party the Chinese Communist Party but how are their billionaire Chinese

Reply to TexasDem69 (Reply #4)

Fri Apr 26, 2024, 07:19 PM

Apr 26

communist oligarchs?

And I have no idea how you decided you wanted to pretend I was saying communism is better than capitalism.

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So how has this "communist" country been eating our lunch? It's supposed to be a failed system right? [View all] brewens Apr 26 OP

Trump. Romney. keithbvadu2 Apr 26 #1

Romney was correct Hekate Apr 26 #8

China is ruled by a muscular fascism. blm Apr 26 #2

China has state capitalism, not anything like the communism of the Maoist days. Pinback Apr 26 #3

After watching this, im not too worried aboit China Volaris Apr 26 #14

Sanity; thank you for the post MutantAndProud Apr 28 #31

Would you please summarize? Ponietz Apr 28 #32

Chinas population is such than within 50 years, theyll Volaris Apr 28 #36

The dumbasses killed all their sparrows over 60 years ago Ponietz Apr 28 #38

It really deserves its own thread; many issues MutantAndProud Apr 28 #37

Thanks Ponietz Apr 28 #39

You're too binary. Igel Apr 26 #20

yes mdmc Tuesday #40

China is communist TexasDem69 Apr 26 #4

They call their political party the Chinese Communist Party but how are their billionaire Chinese brewens Apr 26 #13

Uh, no. Xolodno Apr 26 #17

Mehhh... it's an Authoritarian State... WarGamer Apr 26 #5

Commies fascists - authoritarians. Dont forget.. 617Blue Apr 26 #10

Well, China says they are communist Progressive dog Apr 26 #6

The Nazis claimed to be socialist. Emrys Apr 26 #15

Communists have always run dictatorial regimes Progressive dog Apr 26 #16

Call it what you will, but it's a top-down authoritarian dictatorship Hekate Apr 26 #7

they are about as far from communism as you can get. lapfog_1 Apr 26 #9

Has anyone else noticed ripcord Apr 26 #11

It's a feature. comradebillyboy Apr 28 #27

It's an authoritarian state with a mixed economy Voltaire2 Apr 26 #12

I remember even back in '89, they were making so many of our commercial products Crunchy Frog Apr 26 #23

If China suddenly disappeared, the world would have a small hiccup RainCaster Apr 28 #29

They've transitioned from Maoist Communism... Xolodno Apr 26 #18

You forget The Bopper Apr 26 #19

They're not really a communist country though Crunchy Frog Apr 26 #21

That's my whole point. They say communist because that clicked with the inbreds in their focus groups. brewens Apr 26 #22

And it works well here too. Marcus IM Apr 28 #33

Republican wet dream Dave says Apr 26 #24

marxist leninist theory requires the development of a capitalist economic system as a prerequisite Voltaire2 Apr 28 #25

They call themselves communists. Elessar Zappa Apr 28 #26

China isn't really communist, for starters. yardwork Apr 28 #28

The're not eating our lunch right now. Their economy has been terrible the last two years Quixote1818 Apr 28 #30

China is crony capitalism with political and religious repression. RandySF Apr 28 #34

Communism is a simplistic, idiotic idea. gulliver Apr 28 #35