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Re:Hong Kong police spraying protesters with blue-dye water ... by seamyb88 on Saturday August 31, 2019 @11:44AM (#20846968)
The Communist Party of China are not Communists. Communism is heavily centred around the rights of workers. It is a Capitalist country with state control of markets, as opposed to the usual paradigm of capitalism which is controlled by individual and independent monopolies.
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Re:Hong Kong police spraying protesters with blue-dye water ... by cannonedhamster on Saturday August 31, 2019 @04:34PM (#20848650)
It's not capitalist unless you're talking state capitalism. It's market socialist, and not the European flavor of progressive socialism, but the dictatorial flavor of centralized control of the soviet style. I agree though that this is definitely not Marxist communism, but that also has major social implications such as free love, etc.
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Re:Hong Kong police spraying protesters with blue-dye water ... by throwaway744678 on Saturday August 31, 2019 @02:02PM (#20847828)
The point is not wether they are truly communist or something else, but an authoritarian regime, which is rather undeniable.
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