TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse

Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by misssocrates on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:46AM (#35373456)

Is that not a distinction without a meaningful difference since communism always ends in a centrally lead, totalitarian regime? The Chinese Communist Party merely used a form of state-capitalism to bootstrap it. Xi Jinping believes in Marxism-Leninism. That's not a secret. In 2021, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party declared Xi Jinping Thought "a new breakthrough in the Sinicization of Marxism."

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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by mcv on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:35AM (#35374393)

> Xi Jinping believes in Marxism-Leninism

Perhaps, but China does not have any of Marx's empowerment of the working classes. Factory workers work ridiculously long hours for little pay, while their bosses become billionaires. That's not communism. Whatever label they put on it doesn't change what's underneath.

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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by andrepd on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:01AM (#35373685)

There are myriad "centrally led, totalitarian regimes" which are nothing like each other. Contemporary China is nothing like 1920s Soviet Russia is nothing like Louis XIV's France.

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