When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake

Re:When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake by lostconfused on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:58PM (#19973585)

And I don't want to start that discussion. I just think it's easier to call China a totalitarian capitalist state, without torturing other labels to make them fit. It's not unthinkable for a state to miss represent it self when it comes to names or labels.

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Re:When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake by stcredzero on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:27PM (#19976556)

I just think it's easier to call China a totalitarian capitalist state, without torturing other labels to make them fit.

I think calling them capitalist doesn't involve much less "torturing labels" than calling them communist.

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Re:When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake by lostconfused on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @01:57AM (#19978193)

Ok fair enough. What is it about China that makes it explicitly not capitalist?

Since it's absolutely not communism, what makes it absolutely not a capitalist economy?

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Re:When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake by eropple on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @09:01AM (#19980662)

There's a ton of state ownership of industry, particularly manufacturing, and land is strictly controlled.

That's why I called it "mixed-command".

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Re:When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake by eropple on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:03PM (#19973646)

I...agree? I mean, I said that. ;) Unless your definition of "communist" is "what China is," it doesn't qualify.

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Re:When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake by lostconfused on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:36PM (#19974010)

Then I didn't fully understand your initial post, I am sorry.

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