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In reply to the discussion: So how has this "communist" country been eating our lunch? It's supposed to be a failed system right? [View all]brewens
(13,634 posts)22. That's my whole point. They say communist because that clicked with the inbreds in their focus groups.
It's bringing back the red scare shit and they fall for it.
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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
They call their political party the Chinese Communist Party but how are their billionaire Chinese
brewens
Apr 26
#13
I remember even back in '89, they were making so many of our commercial products
Crunchy Frog
Apr 26
#23
That's my whole point. They say communist because that clicked with the inbreds in their focus groups.
brewens
Apr 26
#22
marxist leninist theory requires the development of a capitalist economic system as a prerequisite
Voltaire2
Apr 28
#25
The're not eating our lunch right now. Their economy has been terrible the last two years
Quixote1818
Apr 28
#30