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Is China actually socialist? (lemmy.ml)
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Asking this because i’m a newbie in the topic of socialism and i want to understand whether China is actually considerable socialist or not. A lot of the stuff we see are Chinese brands, owned by privates (at least i think so, correct me if i’m wrong), making tons of capital. So what’s actually going on?

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[–] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Literally for at least 100 years the word "socialism" has been used to mean the process of transition from capitalism to communism guided by a communist party.

China is a socialist country because it meets that definition.

It is authoritarian because it is a state. All states are authoritarian, by definition.

It is state capitalist because that's what happens when a state guides a transition to communism within a capitalist world order.

And it's called the Communist Party of China, not the Chinese Communist Party, because it is named in the tradition of all Communist Parties - CPUSA (Communist Party of the USA), PCC (Party Communista de Cuba), CPV (Communist Party of Vietnam), etc

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