No it’s fascist.
Just like the United States’ government.
Bingo. Beat me to it. Economically speaking, fascist.
Small elite making all the big decisions.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Remember when they needed to spur their economic growth and went whole-hog to somewhat free markets? Gingrich was saying we should emulate them. Fascism and communism are kissing cousins.
No it’s fascist.
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Just like Stalin, for Mao the quest for Marxism was a vehicle for power. Ultimate power. Both these men were brutal brutal dictators.
But from what I’ve seen, both of them were believers in Marxism. Particularly Mao. So don’t get me wrong about that. But power was the real and pure driving force.
The USSR was more communist than China is. IE: The state (”the people”) own everything. Individuals technically own nothing. But Scott from the left coast is correct. They may not be fascists in the Mussolini sense, but totalitarian top-down control is immense
Just like the United States’ government.
If by fascism, you mean a mixed economy in which the state partners with favored corporations and unions, that would also include Western and Easter Europe, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, Israel, Japan, Taiwan, and most of the world.
“No it’s fascist.
Just like the United States’ government.”
Exactly! China is about as non communist as you can get.
The essence of communism is no private property or enterprises. China and the US lead the world in both.
Fascism on the other hand allows both free enterprise and private property, as long as it doesn’t run afoul of the powers that be.
China is a one party fascist dictatorship. We’re not far from that.
And if one really stops and thinks about it, authoritarianism has been the default human governance for most of human history. From tribes, to kingdoms, to empires, to dynasties.