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samoan62's avatar

If you go through the American "education" system your thought process will basically be:

China = Communist = USSR = Evil Dictatorship.

Everything is absolute, there's no room for nuance. Of course every country's economy has some degree of state ownership vs private ownership of various industries and each has to work within their own parameters of demographics, geography, natural resources, etc. There is no silver bullet of how to govern. "Communist" is then just a label that you can't form judgements on alone. Hitler named his party "National Socialist German Workers' Party", but was he was not a socialist or a communist as that name would suggest.

"Democracy" is just a label too. For westerners it just mean "voting in elections". However Chinese people overwhelmingly report feeling satisfied with the level of democracy (meaning "does our voice matter?") in their country as opposed to westerners who do not.

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Keshler Thibert's avatar

My guess is that it's the word communism and the lack of knowledge regarding the history of each country causing the confusion.

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