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This isn’t the gotcha people think. These guys think China is a socialist state as it pumps out more billionaires than the US for the third straight year. It may just be me, but creating the fastest growing billionaire class in the world is completely incompatible with communism, let alone socialism. To make a long story short, they are delusional. Even worse than an American who thinks the US are the good guys.
They justify it by claiming the CCP has their fist so far up those billionaire asses that really it’s the proletariat controlling all that wealth all along!
It’s the same people claiming the Soviets were socialists, rather than hyper capitalists.
They’re an oligarchical setup, just like the soviets were, just like Russia is, just like the US is.
It’s crazy because even lenin claimed the ussr was state capitalism, and anyone that thinks stalins take over fixed that is an idiot. There were socialist and communist in some power there just like China now, but they are at best a check on the otherwise unchecked capitalist system that those countries primarily are.