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All socialist and fascist states, even while suppressing markets was causing starvation, allowed some cronies to maintain businesses. That's where Putin got his
by ben509 8y ago
All socialist and fascist states, even while suppressing markets was causing starvation, allowed some cronies to maintain businesses. That's where Putin got his start, for instance.
China isn't organized by any free trade principles, they've just formalized their black markets and cronyism.
> It's more like a giant bureaucracy. They have a process, they have regular handovers of power. It's not "I am the law".
You're writing this on an article titled, "China’s Mass Internment Camps Have No Clear End in Sight," with the subtext, "Around 1 million Uighurs have disappeared without trial. Worse may come."
- yourbandsucks 8y agoYes, it's a terrible human rights disaster but that doesn't make the Chinese government a dictatorship. Running internment camps or Jim Crow didn't make the USA a dictatorship, either. Bad deeds don't change the definition of your form of government. Dictatorship is about an individual. The chinese government has not been since Mao. All non-western-democratic governments are not the same. They're not all some giant grab-bag of interchangeable scare words about communism, fascism, dictatorship. Norway's a socialist state. Do they belong in your bucket too?