• HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    Okay, and if we’re going to say that, then Russia, SK, and China are all capitalist then, and there is no socialism/communism. Then we’re right back into ‘no true communist’ territory.

    • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      17 days ago

      Russia and South Korea are Capitalist, extremely so. Did you think the USSR never dissolved and did you mean to say North Korea?

      The PRC is a Socialist Market Economy. The model is described as a birdcage, the CPC allows markets to naturally develop but only along their guidelines, and increases ownership as competition creates these new monopolist syndicates. Socialism Developed China, Not Capitalism is a good article going over China’s economic model. The CPC has the power it has as a Dictatorship of the Proletariat, it needs that power to maintain supremacy over their bourgeoisie. Communism is achieved by degree, not decree.

      The “no true Communism/Socialism” bit is from “left” anticommunists, generally, who haven’t read theory. As for Imperialism, the PRC and Russia don’t meet Lenin’s definition of Imperialism, hence why I linked the book in the first place.