Take a look at China. The word clearly lives on a gradient when you ask someone from China about it... (aka asking someone that actually lives in a communist co

Take a look at China. The word clearly lives on a gradient when you ask someone from China about it... (aka asking someone that actually lives in a communist country). Communism is therefore not strictly "society wide". Clearly. The parent prefixed his phrase with "emulated" as in "emulated communism" meaning that, obviously, the parent wasn't strictly reffering to "society wide" communism either. Communism has a definition and a connotation. The connotation is negative and is twisting YOUR personal definition of the word. To you, communism is evil, so you must twist the definition for it to function at the extreme. To you capitalism is good, so it's not at the extreme... it's more of a moderate concept to you. The reality is both communism and capitalism are SYMMETRIC concepts standing on opposite sides of a gradient. It's debate-able whether communism refers to extreme society wide ownership OR whether it refers to more moderate society wide ownership.... However, to strictly define communism to be extreme means that, symmetrically, capitalism must be defined in such a way too. If not then you're just being biased, because the consequence of defining things this way means that your in your personal vocabulary.... no word exists for "extreme capitalism," while such a word exists for "extreme communism." So stop being biased, open your mind a little.