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Ok let’s say China isn’t communist. what is communist? Is anything communist? A Kibbutz maybe? How about on the nation-state scale? Was China communist und
by whiddershins 7y ago
Ok let’s say China isn’t communist.
what is communist?
Is anything communist?
A Kibbutz maybe?
How about on the nation-state scale?
Was China communist under Mao?
Was the Soviet Union communist?
Castro’s Cuba?
Edit: Any Platonic ideal undergoes distortion when manifested in the material world.
- ivanhoe 7y agoCommunism is both the name of the ideology and of a form of society (well defined in theory), and you need to make a distinction between the two. These countries you mentioned above were (some still are) run by communists, but were never even near communism. Nor they ever claimed that they were, most of the Eastern block countries had socialism in the name in order to make the distinction clear. Socialism is considered a transition into the real communism - which is, from all that we know now, just unachievable utopia at any larger scale than a few hundreds people.
- etaioinshrdlu 7y agoNorth Korea is a Democratic Republic. North Korea is a totalitarian nightmare. Democratic Republics are therefore bad. I actually think the No True Scotsman Fallacy, is itself, not a very good argument to make. We should just pay no attention to what any state calls itself. It's irrelevant.