com•mu•nism kŏm′yə-nĭz″əm
- n.
A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
fasc•ism făsh′ĭz″əm
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- n.
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
Now, which of these definitions is more fitting to what China actually is. They have a free market system, but business are beholden to the government. Whatever the party says goes. If the party tells them to install spyware into the computer chips they manufacture, they do so. Opposition to the party is disappeared. 2 million Muslims are in concentration camps and forcibly sterilized by the party. China believes it was the 1st empire and its going to “take its place” as the dominant empire of the world...Like I said, it’s time to stop calling China a communist country.
Marx described and defined Communism, not only according to how he thought a Communist society would be governed, but about the process by which Communism would take hold, displacing the more traditional forms of government that he wanted to eradicate. He defined how he thought transitions into Communism would begin, and how they would progress toward the sort of society that he envisioned.
It turns out that he made many assumptions about human and social behavior that turned out to be outrageously wrong.
Everywhere that a nation has tried to transition to Communism, the movement failed to progress in the manner that Marx envisioned, and eventually led to a disastrous tyranny, based on principles that Marx described, but producing very different results than he expected.
The excuse is always being made, by those who still foolishly defend Communism, that Communism has never really been tried, because every attempt to implement it has gone badly astray; as if by now, any sane person ought to consider there to be any possibility that an attempt could yet be made to implement Communism, that would go the way Marx meant for it to go. The cliché that defines insanity as doing what has been done before, and expecting a different results, seems apropos here.