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So you believe that the label "Communist" is a deception? Akin to their inflation of economic indicators?

• BurningFrog 7y ago
  More of a tradition. China is clearly a free market economy in most important ways. Though with an amoral state calling all the important shots. They have to keep calling the system "Communist" because that is tradition. That's all.
  • slimed 7y ago
    >China is clearly a free market economy in most important ways >An amoral state calling all the important shots Help me understand how these statements are not contradictory?
    • BurningFrog 7y ago
      There is certainly tension/contradiction there, and the state does stomp in, has the final word, and do what they want from time to time.
    • ohazi 7y ago
      a) Chinese citizens are more or less free to start a company that makes and sells widget X, and freely compete with anyone and everyone else making and selling X, for almost any X. That's the free-market economy part. b) For some values of X, or for some strategic Chinese goals related to X, the Chinese government has opinions. They may ask the company to do (or refrain from doing) certain things. When this happens, the owner of the company needs to do as they're told, or bad things will happen to them. That's the amoral state calling shots part. The lines are not the traditional all-of-society-must-fall-into-one-category-or-the-other capitalism vs. communism, but the boundaries are pretty clear.