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Originally Posted by elphenor
I think I've just accepted that communism has one use that just means some kind of command economy with at least an appearance of social welfare
and then the actual Marxist definition that's just for bookish leftist to jerk off with, as it exists nowhere, but is actually correct
China's party doesn't believe it's communist, it believes (in theory) that China is the state that's meant to usher in communism
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Yeah, they know what they are but every other idiot doesn't so when they call themselves communist every atrocity the enact gets pinned on communism.
It's cherry picking propaganda nonsense. Every problem you've gotten from "communist" governments is the same problems you get with any authoritarian dictatorship. So common sense should tell you that it's not the economic platform that causes the problems but the authoritarianism. People tend to lack common sense, though.