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>> Any communist/marxist country (basically any country with the word "Democratic" in its name)

> Democratic is much older then marxism. Dont spread lies.

That isn't what the quote you responded to was saying. It means "If the country has the exact string 'Democratic' in its name, it was/is communist/Marxist". For example, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

> These dictatorships are then named 'state capitalist' to avoid self reflection on the marxist parts.

This is dishonest, because it means Marxism can never fail: If it fails, it's "state capitalist" (a nonsense category), and was never Marxist to begin with! It's just a lie to keep Marxism from ever looking bad.




Ah I see what you mean.

> This is dishonest ...

I made exactly the same argument as you.


And I made the same argument as you! :)

Practically speaking, whenever communism or some flavor of it was tried in scale they ended up running a large monopolar corporation, which they called "the state". It was state capitalism because the state owned all the capital.

Capitalism, is short for "private capital" a strange form of communism where anyone can own the means of production if they figure out how to.

The United States, for all its flaws, is really the only country where ANYBODY, and I mean ANYBODY, with enough gumption can become a major owner of capital.




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