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What's with some people claiming China isn't a communist country? (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] Toenails02@lemmygrad.ml 51 points 9 months ago (3 children)

They think Deng restored capitalism and installed a bourgeoise dictatorship. The problem with this view is it only works when you haven't read any Chinese socialism and only listen to Western armchair Marxists.

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 9 months ago

Honestly, it only works if one never studied the basics. One has to maliciously ignore or misinterprete Lenin and Engels to conclude China being capitalist.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 9 months ago

It also only works when you haven't seen how a restoration of capitalism in a socialist country actually looks like.

[–] thefreepenguinalt@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 9 months ago

What about 3rd-world Marxists that have come to similar conclusions like the CPP-NPA-NDF