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Come on. China is no utopia—it isn’t even a country I would want to live in—but equating them to Nazis instantly discredits your arguments. The Chinese model i
by jonathanyc 9y ago
Come on. China is no utopia—it isn’t even a country I would want to live in—but equating them to Nazis instantly discredits your arguments.
The Chinese model is unique, and why shouldn’t it be? They are the first country in history of their size to industrialize and become a world power.
Let’s stop making cute generalizations that only serve to make ourselves feel better and think of what we actually don’t like about their system of government so we can fix it in our own. “The Chinese are Nazis!!” doesn’t help anyone.
- HumanDrivenDev 9y ago> They are the first country in history of their size to industrialize and become a world power. Are you implying that a very large country becoming a world power is somehow an impressive achievement?
- mirimir 9y agoI never said Nazi. What I'm getting at is the emphasis on strong leadership, and the belief that businesses should serve the national interest.
- emodendroket 9y agoYou said "national socialism," which is, quite literally, the ideology that "Nazi" is shorthand for.
- mirimir 9y agoOK, so I should have limited it to fascism, given that "national socialism" has become so closely identified with German Nazism. It was opponents who labeled the "National Socialist German Workers' Party" as the "Nazi Party". And there was a lot more idealistic socialism there, before Hitler and his associates took over and created what we know as Nazism.[0] 0) http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_19_04_06_znamenski.pdf http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_19_04_06_znamenski.pd....