[Always Right]

The tycoon class has expanded so substantially that the American business magazine Forbes produces an annual list of China's 100 richest.

If China were a pure communist state there would be no 'tycoon class'. The only reason China is having success is it has let some degree of capitalism in and it has elimated some of its socialsitic ways. Unfortunately China still is run by a brutal totalitarian regime.

[Skywalk]

Correction: Brutal authoritarian regime.

Totalitarian is a Stalinist, Khmer Rouge, Hitleresque control over the totality of society and the individuals that comprise it.

Countries that allow some measure of economic freedom are no longer totalitarian.


Just a technical nitpick :)

[Enemy Of The State]

China is no longer a communist nation.
To put it in their own words, they are "Socialist with Chinese characteristics".

In my opinion, that is just a way around the words of admitting that their communism failed.

The only thing communist in China is the name of their party.

[dead]

Communism and capitalism cannot coexist in the same realm for long.

One of them will eventually topple the other in China, and based on their records, I'd put my money on capitalism.

Might go fifteen bloody rounds though.

[Constitutional Patriot]

Aren't all of the tycoons communist party elite?

[A. Pole]

If China were a pure communist state there would be no 'tycoon class'. The only reason China is having success is it has let some degree of capitalism in and it has elimated some of its socialsitic ways. Unfortunately China still is run by a brutal totalitarian regime.

What is more important, capitalism or representative republic and freedom? In other words is the capitalist dictatorship better than socialist democracy with powerfull middle class? What about bankrupt Latin American style oligarchy?