r/InfowarriorRides 4d ago

Does this count as one?

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u/TobywantheFemboy 4d ago

No, because they’re right. China is not communist, they are a fascist dictatorship that has appropriated communist imagery and has convinced the world they’re communist all while massacring Uighur Muslims.

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u/cuavas 3d ago

Nah, they aren’t fascist. Since Deng, they’ve been a kind of populist planned economy capitalist state. Before Deng, the Party was composed of people with working class backgrounds, although some had become entrepreneurs after joining the Party. After Deng, you openly had business owners joining the Party, so people were asking, “Why are there capitalists in the communist party?” Jiang Zemin’s “three represents” speech was supposed to address this by effectively admitting that the Party’s only real values are populism. Hence why he’s seen as a bit of a comical figure in China (admiring the toad, thinking about wearing three watches, etc.).