Does "Communist" China still apply? Aren't they capitalist now?

Lou Dobbs always refers to China as "Communist China". Pundits refer to them as "Communist China" then rant about their capitalism, Communism is the ideological opposite of Capitalism. When will they start calling China what it is? A Capitalist dictatorship?

Communist for historic reasons.

Basically China is essentially a slave/capitalist system that keeps the workers powerless for the benefit of the party. Sick.

They are our partners in pig like consumption and slave utilization.

regarding press, internet, personal lives, etc.

The reality seems to be something else.

Along the Yangtze farmers with little more than 5 acres of 75 degree slopes farm weedy patches of maize, but have two story homes with satellite dishes...

Millions are displace by a central decision to dam the Yangtze at the mouth of the 3 gorges...

Hundreds of millions cannot find work in cities lie Beijing, Xiang and Shanghi because they are not "citizens" of those cities.

It is not capitalism. It is NOT a workers paradise.

It is a monstrosity aimed at creating Chinese Robber Barons out of the communist elite.

I hated what I saw there, and I think of myself as a social democrat in the Swedish model, and it was dreadful. Truly dreadful.

I've heard its a lot better as far as materially. The gvt still executes people for petty crimes such as "Hooliganism".

while those who "are" the government are becoming rich.

IMHO it is one completely fucked up system.

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Snip>As a political and economic system in Italy, fascism combined elements of corporatism, totalitarianism, nationalism, militarism and anti-Communism. In an article in the 1932 Enciclopedia Italiana, written by Giovanni Gentile and attributed to Benito Mussolini, fascism is described as a system in which "The State not only is authority which governs and molds individual wills with laws and values of spiritual life, but it is also power which makes its will prevail abroad... For the Fascist, everything is within the State and... neither individuals nor groups are outside the State... For Fascism, the State is an absolute, before which individuals or groups are only relative..."
"Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere. ... The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State." - Benito Mussolini, 1935, "The Doctrine of Fascism," Firenze: Vallecchi Editore. <snip
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Thy never were communists. The party was not open to all. Greed overides the best intentions.

The political oppression and economic inefficiency of communism and the inequality of capitalism, all in one easy-to-use bottle.

Now Amerika is in debt in a major way to that Fascist Regime. We are living in The Twilight Zone.

China is an autocratic one party capitalist state that has kept the imagery of what it used to be under Mao.

They're a blend of capitalism and Marxism and socialism at the moment. I call it "authoritarian socialist Communism." Because it has elements of all 3 systems sprinkled throughout it. To break it down into simpler terms, it's authoritarian, which is all we need to know to avoid it.

(free health care, free education with affirmative action for the poor) and kept the bad parts (political repression, suppression of ethnic minorities, sabre rattling over Taiwan).

No country that has a stock market can call itself communist.