China has 36% of the world’s billionaires. https://t.co/NKKLe2vtT4
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Ok, you can call them communists if you want. BUT you have to never again utter the line that “communism has failed in every country that tried it” because CCP China (of whom I am not a fan) has thrived. Choose your poison, chum.
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This is a weird argument to have. Communism is a kind of secular religion; there's necessarily a dissonance between the unrealizable goals and the need to have a workable economy. Communist countries that adopt a market economy can do OK economically; are still communist
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This goes back to as early as Lenin and the New Economic Policy. I think much of the confusion and pointless fighting comes from not recognizing the religious, aspirational aspects of Marxist faith, and instead having "no true Scotsman" arguments over implementation
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So if a country has a totalizing state apparatus, and calls itself communist, and is run by a Communist party in proper communion with the traditions of Marxism-Leninism, then call it communist! The fact that the economic model is fantasy is their problem to solve, not ours
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It is not like saying those things
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