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"Made In China" (Original Post)
kpete
Dec 2014
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RedstDem
(1,239 posts)1. well, to be honest, China is not communist
They are the worlds only authoritarian capitalist country.
Or something close to that.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)2. That would be "fascism"? n/t
progressoid
(49,991 posts)3. But when Nixon went there
to normalize relations they still were. And, the Vietnam War was still going strong.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)4. They have the worst of both worlds...
The excesses of capitalism, the evils of authoritarian communism.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)5. Yeah really!
I'm astounded by how many wingnuts at work DO NOT see the irony when I pointed it out several days ago.