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China produces nearly twice the carbon dioxide emissions as the second largest carbon dioxide producer, USA. China is a communist state. https://www.ucsusa.org
by tuskan 8y ago
China produces nearly twice the carbon dioxide emissions as the second largest carbon dioxide producer, USA. China is a communist state.
https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/science/each-countrys-share-of-co2.html#.W9rh9mhKhPY https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/sc...
- leonroy 8y ago> China is a communist state. Yet its market operates more like a capitalistic one. It's also not entirely fair to point the finger wholly at China on CO2 output when Europe and the US have effectively outsourced their manufacturing and most polluting processes to companies over there.
- prolikewh0a 8y agoDo the workers own the means of production? No, therefore China is not a communist state. It is one in name only. Its economy is extremely capitalistic.
- lexs 8y agohow would that statistic look like if it attributed the carbon where the end product was consumed? At least China isn't calling global warming a hoax...
- lorenzorhoades 8y agoI've never thought about it like that... Your completely right, and i'm sure it would show the US is doing alot more harm than previously thought.
- rbanffy 8y ago> China is a communist state. China is, actually, the living proof capitalism works a lot better without a democracy holding it back.
- spuz 8y agoFor the majority, perhaps. Try telling that to the Uighurs of Xinjiang.
- misja111 8y agoThere is nothing in a democracy either that prevents minorities from being oppressed. Examples of democratic countries with oppressed minorities are plenty.
- spuz 8y agoI agree.
- cmrdporcupine 8y agoI think you're misinterpreting the tone of the parent's comment as an endorsement, when it is likely in fact a critique. Marx's commentary on so-called democratic states: "The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie" rings quite true today. In China they've perfected this by getting the pesky petty grumbles of the population out of the way.
- mac01021 8y agoIt's really a capitalist state managed by an authoritarian government. Despite that the ruling party used "Communist" as it's name.
- cmrdporcupine 8y agoChina is a capitalist state run by converted former Marxists using the language of Marxist-Leninism to administrate an authoritarian market economy. They've in a sense found a way to use Marx's critique of capitalism towards its opposite intent. Marx saw the authoritarianism inherent in the market and how it was tied to wage labour exploitation? The Chinese Communist party has harnessed that authoritarianism to increase exploitation to its maximum. The Communist Party in China are as "communist" as the later Roman emperors were "Christian."