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I just think it's easier to call China a totalitarian capitalist state, without torturing other labels to make them fit. I think calling them capitalist doesn'
by stcredzero 7y ago
I just think it's easier to call China a totalitarian capitalist state, without torturing other labels to make them fit.
I think calling them capitalist doesn't involve much less "torturing labels" than calling them communist.
- lostconfused 7y agoOk fair enough. What is it about China that makes it explicitly not capitalist? Since it's absolutely not communism, what makes it absolutely not a capitalist economy?
- eropple 7y agoThere's a ton of state ownership of industry, particularly manufacturing, and land is strictly controlled. That's why I called it "mixed-command".