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Re:Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China... by sverige on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @08:47AM (#18228890)
> It's rule by people who use the brand "communist", but they aren't actually communists in any meaningful sense, not even as in what the word meant to the Soviets. China is very authoritarian, but it is not communist or even socialist.

What does this even mean? The government and the people who run it are the direct political descendants of Mao and the Communists who overthrew the Chinese government in the '40s. They are Communists. Full stop. If the people who call themselves "Communist" and have run the most populous nation in the world for the last 75 years can't be the very definition of "communist," then words have no meaning.

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Re:Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China... by int_19h on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @10:22PM (#18235542)
The government and the people who run it are literally jailing actual Mao-worshipping communists right now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/world/asia/china-maoists-...

The reason why China isn't meaningfully communist is because their economy isn't communist, or even socialist, in any meaningful sense. There are a lot of govt-owned companies, yes, but they're run as capitalist enterprises. Again, what this resembles most is fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, just less bloodthirsty. What it does not resemble is the USSR, or China under Mao.

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Re:Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China... by gyaru on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @09:11AM (#18229033)
>If the people who call themselves "Communist"

North Korea confirmed to be a democracy?

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Re:Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China... by sverige on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @10:06AM (#18229453)
Clearly not. They are ruled by the Workers' Party of Korea, and it is a self-described revolutionary and socialist state.

And since we were originally talking about Chinese communists, it's interesting to note that they have been the chief supporters of North Korea's government.

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