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Under the European system of monarchies the king owned all land in the kingdom. On that legacy King Charles III and the pope are still the two largest landowners in the world. Were the British Empire and the Roman Empire communist?
E: The US federal government owns about 27% of the land in the US including the majority of Washington DC. State governments own about another 7% and local governments another 2%. That’s more than a third of the country. What’s the tipping point? How far are we from becoming communist based on land ownership?
So if the land is not owned by a monarch and 0% is privately owned, it’s not communism?
It’s appalling that people don’t want to claim any government has ever been truly communist because all the ones that claimed to be turned into authoritarian shit shows.
Left and right is about economics. You can have shit on both sides of that. What’s more important/better are those that seek liberty for society. Authoritarians will be left right or both simultaneously if it serves them. ML and fascists being prime examples.
All bad regimes are authoritarian. All good regimes tend to be flat/granular and answerable. Yes that type of thing tends to be mostly on the left, just not exclusively.
I am Chinese American, I do not want either the USA nor PRC becoming some “global superpower”. Any country becoming such influential in the global stage would become extremely corrupt, if it isn’t already corrupt. Looking at how much food safety issues are in mainland China, tofu dreg, lack of labor rights, repressive Hukou system, discrimation and lack of protection for people with disabilities, especially any brain related ones like Autism Spectrums Disorders, filial piety being used as an excuse for child abuse, ultra-conservatism, toxic masculinity, misogyny, obsession with having children and anyone who choose a childfree life is socially ostricized, unmarried people, especially unmarried women, are socially ostricized, etc…
People simping for PRC don’t know anything about it. Its a horrible opprrssive regime. A couple breaks policy and give an unauthorized birth, what does the government do? “This child does not exist”. I didn’t even get legal documents for the first few years of my life until my parents paid the money the government demanded for my birth, as I was the 2nd child, born against policy. Children being punished for their parents so called “crime”, the crime of me existing without a government permission slip… since when the f does government have a say in personall matters, its literally just the opposite of forced births essentially, government overreach in matters they have zero bussiness in. They love to pretend things don’t exist when it suits them. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihaizi)
Unfortunately such a system doesn’t exist. Britain used to be hegemon before world war 2, then the US, and soon the PRC.
I’m not part of the imperial core (US), so I’d rather deal with Beijing than Washington in foreign affairs.
Unfortunately, my country already has all those discriminations, so the only thing that would change for me is dealing with a more cooperative rather than extractive “pole”
I mean, EU influence would be a better path. They have GDPR protections, Right to Repair, much better healthcare than either USA or PRC, generally has a pro-FOSS attitude, much better consumer protections overall.
MAGA is also scared of the CCP. That doesn’t automatically make the CCP a force for good.
This would be like if I said:
And you jumped in and said they may also be afraid of cheese…
They love far right authoritarian regimes, which is what China is.
Like, why did you even make that comment, do you think China is fucking leftwing?
A non-zero amount of people on Lemmy think china is communist and therefore left-wing.
There was a huge exodus of a lot of the content creators from reddit to lemmy. Do you think Lemmy is immune to trolls?
Occams/hanlons razor, imo.
Lots of people are real fuckin dumb.
No True Communism
All bad regimes are right wing. They should be replaced with left wing regimes because they are always good. Counterexamples are not truly left wing.
Whether China is communist or not, I can’t answer. What China definitely is, is right wing.
If they’re right wing they’re not communist, even under the objectively stupid left wing equals libertarian definition.
Authoritarian left.
Authoritarian right.
Chicken wings!
Words mean things. Do you think the DPRK is democratic, or the Nazis were socialist?
Gee, I wonder why there’s no actual communist government…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Central_Intelligence_Agency
Bro I lived in China, they literally operate a capitalist authoritarian regime.
Who owns the land in Shanghai?
Under the European system of monarchies the king owned all land in the kingdom. On that legacy King Charles III and the pope are still the two largest landowners in the world. Were the British Empire and the Roman Empire communist?
E: The US federal government owns about 27% of the land in the US including the majority of Washington DC. State governments own about another 7% and local governments another 2%. That’s more than a third of the country. What’s the tipping point? How far are we from becoming communist based on land ownership?
So if the land is not owned by a monarch and 0% is privately owned, it’s not communism?
It’s appalling that people don’t want to claim any government has ever been truly communist because all the ones that claimed to be turned into authoritarian shit shows.
Left and right is about economics. You can have shit on both sides of that. What’s more important/better are those that seek liberty for society. Authoritarians will be left right or both simultaneously if it serves them. ML and fascists being prime examples.
All bad regimes are authoritarian. All good regimes tend to be flat/granular and answerable. Yes that type of thing tends to be mostly on the left, just not exclusively.
Mamdani is not a CCP member
ROFL
Bro what is an analogy?
Analogies have to make sense. You’re using it to pivot the discussion.
You insult everyone’s intelligence and debase your own. Maybe that’s just your baseline.
What? Mango Mussolini said, “Xi is great and they love each other.” MAGA would like to hold the same power as the CCP.
China is orders of magnitude more of a force for good than the US is.
China becoming hegemon would unironically be amazing for humanity
Lol nope.
I am Chinese American, I do not want either the USA nor PRC becoming some “global superpower”. Any country becoming such influential in the global stage would become extremely corrupt, if it isn’t already corrupt. Looking at how much food safety issues are in mainland China, tofu dreg, lack of labor rights, repressive Hukou system, discrimation and lack of protection for people with disabilities, especially any brain related ones like Autism Spectrums Disorders, filial piety being used as an excuse for child abuse, ultra-conservatism, toxic masculinity, misogyny, obsession with having children and anyone who choose a childfree life is socially ostricized, unmarried people, especially unmarried women, are socially ostricized, etc…
People simping for PRC don’t know anything about it. Its a horrible opprrssive regime. A couple breaks policy and give an unauthorized birth, what does the government do? “This child does not exist”. I didn’t even get legal documents for the first few years of my life until my parents paid the money the government demanded for my birth, as I was the 2nd child, born against policy. Children being punished for their parents so called “crime”, the crime of me existing without a government permission slip… since when the f does government have a say in personall matters, its literally just the opposite of forced births essentially, government overreach in matters they have zero bussiness in. They love to pretend things don’t exist when it suits them. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihaizi)
Fuck PRC and the CCP.
Unfortunately such a system doesn’t exist. Britain used to be hegemon before world war 2, then the US, and soon the PRC.
I’m not part of the imperial core (US), so I’d rather deal with Beijing than Washington in foreign affairs.
Unfortunately, my country already has all those discriminations, so the only thing that would change for me is dealing with a more cooperative rather than extractive “pole”
I mean, EU influence would be a better path. They have GDPR protections, Right to Repair, much better healthcare than either USA or PRC, generally has a pro-FOSS attitude, much better consumer protections overall.
Yes, but the EU is currently a US vassal and surprisingly weak as a driver of any geopolitical decision.
I wish the EU would have closer relations with the PRC as a balance to being screwed over by the US
I suspect we’re gonna find out one way or the other.
Tell that to the Philippines, or Tibetans.
I imagine the US equivalent list to be much longer.