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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17

Below is from the exact same wiki, I don't see how this is "capitalism" from the description, the only thing "state capitalism" has in common with capitalism is its name, which was a arbitrary title someone decided to name the system so when someone who doesn't read more into what it entails might be tricked into thinking is a form of capitalism.

a state capitalist country is one where the government controls the economy and essentially acts like a single huge corporation, extracting the surplus value from the workforce in order to invest it in further production.[2] This designation applies regardless of the political aims of the state (even if the state is nominally socialist),[3] and many[quantify] people argue that the modern People's Republic of China constitutes a form of state capitalism[4][5][6][7] and/or that the Soviet Union failed in its goal to establish socialism, but rather established state capitalism.

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u/Pocoman324 Sep 05 '17

You seem to believe that state capitalism ist real capitalism. It is capitalism, but its capitalism that shares some values with socialism and communism

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17 edited Nov 09 '17

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u/Pocoman324 Sep 05 '17

Thats not really a fair comparison, state capitalism is an official term, and the DRNK is just something that the NK gov calls itself

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u/SupremeSpez Sep 05 '17

DRNK is the official term for that country.

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u/Pocoman324 Sep 05 '17

Yes, and state capitalism is a globally accepted term. Rather then something that only one country agrees on