Comments on: Why China is No Longer a Communist Country

By: LordD

LordD — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:59:37 +0000

I lived in China for several years(Worked for “private local” companies in the 70 Billion Yuan Range) and they are Communist by label, but in fact and practice they are closer to Nazism (Business Wise) or Fascism. All companies that are supposedly “free market” hold reserves and ownership which still belong to the governments control. This is no different than 20 years ago except that the outside of the building looks different, the inside still houses government spies that MUST work within the “private” business to monitor it’s activities and report back to the Communist leadership. In Nazi Germany privately owned firms were owned by individuals, but their production, spending habits were carefully monitored by the government to retain control, shut down operations they did not like, force the sale of some assets to another business. This is private “ownership” under extreme governmental control and you can loose it all if you don’t play the way they want you to. I Lived it.

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By: Robert Vance

Robert Vance — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:30:47 +0000

@g.xu / jia,

Interesting how both of these comments come from the same IP address within two minutes of each other.

This article WAS written last year. Much has changed since then. I still stand by my original premise, though, that China is no longer a Communist country.

By: g. xu

g. xu — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:44:16 +0000

the writer of this article is quite naive about the realities in china.

By: jia

jia — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:42:21 +0000

china is no communist in the economic sense. it is becoming more and more state-capitalism. politically it is same as before – quite totalitarian in many respects, although there are some improvements, but since last year it is becomign worse again.

By: omargdeen

omargdeen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:22:50 +0000

personally i dislike china because of the reputation it has aquired of oppression and inhibition of thought. But I do have to agree that communism and socialism are the same thing and also that they are very hard to practice in the modern world. However i have to say that china, fighting a losing battle. There are several anomalies in the article above. “state owned television”? if china was indeed a mixed economy independent stations should be flourishing. But i know for a fact that journalism in china is still severely limited. For example, due to the absence of independent stations, only the state version of events is broadcast. This completely inhibits free thought and discussion. However as someone said it is improving policy wise. however, we cannot see any improvement in the enforcing of these policies and lifting the heavy censorship. im welcome to any debate.

By: dusk.blackman

dusk.blackman — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:33:34 +0000

espero, i agree w/you. for communism to flourish it would have to be a small country to be successful. china has got too many people to be a success. and it’s pulling into too many different directions.

By: espero

espero — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:29:20 +0000

why do we misuse terminologies, to all the above writers, could some one give a clear definition of socialism or communism? are they same or not? because to me communism falls under socialism.that’s to say a type of socialism.however communism is a good ideology but difficult to practice….so today china is not a communist country but a capitalist -socialist country or what we can call mixed economy.

By: J.macklby

J.macklby — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:05:11 +0000

President Barack Obama’s inaugural speech has just indirectly illustrated again how ‘taboo’ it is to discuss China’s bloody Communist past under Mao, inside today’s China:
Obama :’ Recall that earlier generations faced down Communism and Fascism not just with missles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions’
At this moment, China’s state broadcaster CCTV , which had been translating Obama’s speech to its hundreds of millions of citizens, suddenly, yet like a clumsy lumbering beast, cut out and moved onto a discussion of the Chinese economy…..While most Chinese language websites, also read by hundreds of millions of Chinese , deleted Obama’s references to Communism at the same time.
Of course English language websites, read by foreigners, and by much smaller numbers of Chinese, allowed the ‘offending’ Words…..Perhaps to have foreigners believe that China really does allow freedom of expression and ‘dissent’. Who does the Chinese Central Propaganda Department think that they are kidding ?

By: jenn

jenn — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:28:31 +0000

I am glad I came across this article, it taught me about some things that I knew nothing about. i guess I should be grateful to my professor for assigning an assignment on communist and capitalist. Although I was a bit confused at some points because I don’t know the full history of China, nor do I get this whole communist/capitalist stuff, your article made it somewhat easier for me to comprehend.