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> Also, regarding "communist"... they're not really communist, haven't been for a long time now. Right, but communism has never been communism where it has bee
by vxNsr 6y ago
> Also, regarding "communist"... they're not really communist, haven't been for a long time now.
Right, but communism has never been communism where it has been tried, that's the paradox of communism. trying to continually redefine the term to fit your narrative to that it's still pure is a boring exercise in bike-shedding.
- FooBarWidget 6y agoI don't know where you got the idea from that I'm 'redefining' communism. Communism refers to an economic system, where one of the properties is that everything is state owned. And that is no longer true. Communism also refers to the Soviet model, and China is no longer using that. If I say that today's China's mostly capitalist system is a new form of communism, then you would be right than I am redefining it. So I am very confused by what you mean when you accuse me of redefining communism. It seems more like that you are redefining communism to mean whatever system China is using today.