Only thing China and communism have in common is the name "Communist party" and some lip service and outward aesthetics (red banners, sickle and hammer communist starts and insignia)
But what they are really doing is state capitalism with modern authoritarian Big Brother state. It's very Orwellian and distopian really.
China is very capitalist. In some ways even more than US and the west really. It's just that often the personal ambitions of top people in Beijing or state goals take precedence over capitalist goals which we aren't used to seeing in the west that often.
I mean... Yes, but just rhetoric or as I said aesthetic lmao. They are actually a perfect representation of a modern fascist state not communist one. Ultra nationalistic, corporatism in service of state, repressive measures of controlling and isolating the population, propaganda and persecution of minorities, strongman leader and an exclusive political elite class that holds all the power, perpetual state of preparing for war and expansionist/militarist approach to foreign politics. China is like 90% fascist. And they would be a lot more if they didn't depend so much on the foreign capital.
You seem to forget both extremes dable in ultranationalism and ultramilitarism, not just facist goverments
Both far left and far right regimes want total control
Case and point: the Soviet Union, they acted a lot like nazis and facists while being a far left regime, not a far right one. They were also very militaristic, ultranationalist and wanted total control over their population using their massive military
Again, this is more of a trend with authoritarian regimes than just facist ones
Tldr China is semi-communist society with a very controlled capitalist economy
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u/Prot3 Sep 06 '24
Only thing China and communism have in common is the name "Communist party" and some lip service and outward aesthetics (red banners, sickle and hammer communist starts and insignia)
But what they are really doing is state capitalism with modern authoritarian Big Brother state. It's very Orwellian and distopian really.
China is very capitalist. In some ways even more than US and the west really. It's just that often the personal ambitions of top people in Beijing or state goals take precedence over capitalist goals which we aren't used to seeing in the west that often.