• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    4 days ago

    Attributing the achievements of Socialist economies governed by Communist Parties to the ideology driving the decision-making of the government is very different from a random republican calling the Post Office “Communist.”

    • Nalivai@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 days ago

      Believing that capitalist autocracy is socialist or communist, however, is absolutely the same as republicans calling everything communist.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        4 days ago

        Sure, republicans tend to think the Russian Federation is somehow still Communist despite the fall of the USSR in the 90s. However, China is absolutely Socialist, which is a fact recognized by every major Marxist-Leninist organization worldwide, so that doesn’t have any relevance here. Their economy is Socialist, the overwhelming majority of large firms and key industries are publicly owned, and they have a form of democracy that results on over 90% of the population supporting their government.