China’s surveillance state has created at least four billionaires

Re:China’s surveillance state has created at least four bill... by maxxxxx on Saturday February 23, 2019 @07:31AM (#19233046)

We shouldn’t call china a communist country. It’s something else and calling it communist doesn’t explain anything other than maybe the words they are using.

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Re:China’s surveillance state has created at least four bill... by mc32 on Saturday February 23, 2019 @08:08AM (#19233178)

Importantly they claim themselves to be. But also the political system is still communist even if the economic system isn’t. During Leninism, the kulaks were incentivized. They needed a capitalist system; it wasn’t till Stalin willed it that confiscations happened and starvation happened by the millions. So communism historically has allowed capitalism, when expedient.

What’s more officially it’s “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era[1]" Read it, they really believe it. I know people are having a hard time believing it because it’s anathema to them.

[1]http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/17/c_137046261.htm

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