francoHFW
Diamond Member
Change the channel, dittohead. You and Rev. Moon are fos.
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Free Enterprise does not make Communists happy, Frank. The state controls the people. Capitalism does not make people free, the Constitution and the spirit of the Declaration of Indepence make people free. Unregulated capitalism and regulated communism enslave people.
The Chinese are more capitalist than anything these days.
Retardplicans like Frank who are far right believe anything even slightly to the left of them is far left and communist.
I know.
It's embarrassing that Communist have become happy and prosperous since their embrace of Free Enterprise, while US Democrats bitterly cling to the failure of redistribution
It is an inreresting dichotomy. The Socialists/Progressives here in America are dragging us closer & closer to Totalitarian rule while former Totalitarian nations are giving their people more freedom. What's going on in this country? It's Twilight Zone shit.
Neither the DEMS nor the REPS exist on that childish LEFT RIGHT SCALE that so many of you partisans think describes our poltical scene.
The fact that so many people do think like you do is a testament to the power of propaganda to obfuscate reality from those who aren't willing to do the hard work it really takes to know what is going on.
Neither the DEMS nor the REPS exist on that childish LEFT RIGHT SCALE that so many of you partisans think describes our poltical scene.
The fact that so many people do think like you do is a testament to the power of propaganda to obfuscate reality from those who aren't willing to do the hard work it really takes to know what is going on.
Your entitled to your opinion, but the paradigm right left does work well. The issue is the silly definitions of folks like Frank.
No....China is not an autocracy..."Autocracy means one man possesses unlimited power and citizens have no rights
This is correct. China is not an "autocracy" and I misspoke. It is an authoritarian oligarchy, rather.
Communism is when the Government has unlimited rule.
This, however, is NOT correct. The government having unlimited rule is totalitarianism. Nazi Germany was a totalitarian state. Nazi Germany was not Communist.
If Vladimir Lenin were reincarnated in 21st-century Beijing and managed to avert his eyes from the city's glittering skyscrapers and conspicuous consumption, he would instantly recognize in the ruling Chinese Communist Party a replica of the system he designed nearly a century ago for the victors of the Bolshevik Revolution. One need only look at the party's structure to see how communist -- and Leninist -- China's political system remains.
Sure, China long ago dumped the core of the communist economic system, replacing rigid central planning with commercially minded state enterprises that coexist with a vigorous private sector. Yet for all their liberalization of the economy, Chinese leaders have been careful to keep control of the commanding heights of politics through the party's grip on the "three Ps": personnel, propaganda, and the People's Liberation Army.
If China has "dumped the core of the Communist economic system," that means China IS NOT COMMUNIST. You cannot have a Communist country without a socialist economy; that's absurd. You can have an authoritarian, undemocratic state in which there are no real election, no free press, no personal liberty, etc. but it will NOT be Communist.
Communism and totalitarianism are not synonyms.
The New Economic Policy (NEP) was an economic policy proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who called it state capitalism. Allowing some private ventures, the NEP allowed small animal businesses or smoke shops, for instance, to reopen for private profit while the state continued to control banks, foreign trade, and large industries.[1] It was officially decided in the course of the 10th Congress of the All-Russian Communist Party. It was promulgated by decree on 21 March 1921, "On the Replacement of Prodrazvyorstka by Prodnalog" (i.e., on the replacement of foodstuffs requisitions by fixed foodstuffs tax). In essence, the decree required the farmers to give the government a specified amount of raw agricultural product as a tax in kind.[2] Further decrees refined the policy and expanded it to include some industries. The New Economic Policy was replaced by Stalin's First Five-Year Plan in 1928.
New Economic Policy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia