• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Russia is a Bourgeois Dictatorship so it cannot be Communist. China has a Socialist Market Economy, which is a transitional state towards Communism along traditional Marxist lines.

    You may want to read Engels’ On Authority, strong government power isn’t enough to consider something anti-Communist, at least according to traditional Marxism.

    Note: that doesn’t mean a strong government is good, necessarily, it just means that it is compatible with Socialism and thus not inherently anti-Communist.