• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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    23 years ago

    If India had a communist uprising it wouldn’t necessarily embrace China. Communist countries don’t always see eye to eye, but they’d certainly be more ideologically aligned than they are now.

    Regarding whether China is communist or not, I don’t think the question is binary. China has a communist party in charge and they’re working towards communism. I don’t think anybody has ever claimed that China has achieved it yet.

    China currently has capitalism, but saying that makes it capitalist would be like saying that a capitalist country with some socialist policies is socialist. The key difference between China and capitalist states is that all the essential industry is state owned, and capitalists do not appear to be in charge of the government.

    One simple test to consider is that China doesn’t suffer from regular crashes seen under capitalism. One of the inherent contradictions within capitalism is that the capitalists always want to cut pay for their employees to minimize the costs, while they also require consumers with enough spending power to consume the commodities they produce. This is why capitalism results in regular economic crashes when wages fall below the point where consumption can keep up with the rate of commodity production. At that point you end up with overproduction and a crash. If China was capitalist then it should be experiencing these kinds of crashes regularly just like actual capitalist nations are in the Western world.

    And a related point is that quality of life in China continues to steadily improve and the government is actively working on doing things like eliminating poverty, creating public infrastructure, providing healthcare, housing, food, and education for all citizens. This is something that simply does not happen under capitalism. We can compare communist China and capitalist India today to see the stark contrast in their development.