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> the west is lagging behind now. This is because the west has become socialist The idea that the West is more socialist than Communist China, a one party stat
by pjc50 2y ago
> the west is lagging behind now. This is because the west has become socialist
The idea that the West is more socialist than Communist China, a one party state run by the Communist Party of China, just goes to show how completely useless ideological labelling is now. Just as "woke" has become a shorthand for "anything I don't like".
- jabl 2y agoI agree with the sentiment in general, but wrt China in particular, how socialist is it really? Yes, it's a one-party authoritarian state that calls itself communist, largely due to historical reasons. But the contemporary Chinese economy seems very much to be a market economy. Albeit one with a lot of state intervention typical of authoritarian regimes, but that doesn't make it socialist much less communist.
- pjc50 2y ago> how socialist is it really Well indeed. What does that mean? Nobody seems to be interested in any kind of intellectual accuracy or coherence, they just want to use "socialism bad" as a thought-terminating cliche.