Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by BriggyDwiggs42 on Monday January 20, 2025 @01:38AM
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Communism has a definition. In the same vein, when someone says “democracy,” you can know roughly what they mean without knowing, eg, is it a representative democracy, is it a republic, does everyone vote together on all issues in a town square. Communism has basic characteristics involving the abolition of private property (not the same as property) and class. China has moved away from socialism to a kind of state capitalism over decades, and I don’t remotely understand why we’d call it communist.
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Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by seanmcdirmid on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:54AM
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Again, if you read Marx he claims that successful communism comes after capitalistic development. The communist party can take communism as an eventual goal instead of as a necessary truth right now, since the latter has always ended in disaster and the former puts off communism until later. The communist party is most definitely focused on communism as a goal, its goal is turn China to communism when its ready, China is not communist ATM.
Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by BriggyDwiggs42 on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:55PM
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Yes, that’s why I said at the outset that the CCP doesn’t run a communist country. That’s also a pretty funny idea; the CCP is cultivating a brutal capitalism to encourage a worker revolution into socialism against, uhh, themselves? By this logic the US is communist.