Love reading liberals play with their words. Like bud you don't have to log on and start writing things about subjects you clearly aren't well studied in. You can actually choose to just not do that lol
For some reason people who don't read theory / materialist history really don't understand how incredibly silly comments like Nemo's come across to those who do.
Even just reading the abstract would make it clear why I sent you that link.
Those countries does/did not operate as communist states the way that Marx and other political theorists imaginend them.
The article details the way in which socialist theory has been implemented throughout points in history and compares and contrasts with the modern Chinese methods. It is not "just a label" as you casually threw out earlier. China has used the productive forces of capital to rapidly modernize, however they do not allow capital to be turned into political power which results in a government that is shielded from a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie forming like we have in every capitalist country. Their capital accumulation is actually used to massively better the lives of the people who live there because they have a real say in what goes on.
I really appreciate you hand sending this extremely funny comment straight to my inbox, thanks. Normally I'd have to scroll through some straight up boring shit to find a nugget like this.
Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?