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Re:The Chinese Communist Party Is Setting Up Cells at Univer... by JamesLeonis on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @08:03PM (#16872336)
The tragedy of losing our own Communist (and Socialist) Party is how they could counterbalance the narrative of China. Imagine Chinese and American Communist students having a debate in public of these universities. How many disaffected Chinese could we swing our way? Regardless of your stance of Marx, ceding the entire argument ground to the CCP doesn't do us any favors.
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Re:The Chinese Communist Party Is Setting Up Cells at Univer... by sterlind on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @08:16PM (#16872389)
CPUSA was an actual communist party, while CCP's main ideology is Chinese corporate nationalism. I think engaging with CPUSA would most certainly take points off your social credit score back home.
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Re:The Chinese Communist Party Is Setting Up Cells at Univer... by malandrew on Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:08AM (#16873267)
This. The CCP is communist in name only (and maybe mechanisms of social control). There isn't much about China that is communist these days. I think China would more accurately be considered authoritarian capitalist and nationalist. China is only socialist in the same ways that Nazi Germany was socialist.
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Re:The Chinese Communist Party Is Setting Up Cells at Univer... by johnzim on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:51AM (#16873863)
They gave it a solid try and only gave up after the inevitable famine, forced labour camps, poverty and imprisonment of political opposition. A solid display of Marxist government.

Then they worked out they could still have most of that without the widespread poverty with fascism!

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Re:The Chinese Communist Party Is Setting Up Cells at Univer... by alistoriv on Thursday April 19, 2018 @11:09AM (#16876551)
Yeah, almost two decades after the famine. And were the Gang of Four not imprisoned political opposition?

Your comment reminds me of the famous Mao quote "No investigation, no right to speak."

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Re:The Chinese Communist Party Is Setting Up Cells at Univer... by yostrovs on Thursday April 19, 2018 @07:53AM (#16875059)
Exactly. In any case, ask a Communist where Communism had been tried and the answer will be: nowhere. True Communists see it like true Christians see heaven. It exists because book says so, but getting there gets stopped by evil others.
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