Sunday, March 29, 2020

Kowtowing to China

I believe the person interviewed is Bruce Aylward. Of course, everyone knows China is a communist regime led by autocrats who have no problem using heavy-handed, draconian, and even bloody measures against their own people. By contrast, Taiwan is a free and democratic nation like South Korea and like Hong Kong should be.

Also, the role of conservative media in this story:

3 comments:

  1. Is China a communist society? Under communism, the workers seize and control the means of production. In China, control is exercised by a small, wealthy elite. Surely it's what it *is* that matters, not what the label on the tin (in this case, the label of the party) that matters. China is an oligarchy.

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    1. Good points, though perhaps we don't have to choose? Perhaps we can say something like China is a nominally communist society that is ruled by an oligarchy that is willing to throw out its communist ideals if these ideals interfere with their self-interests but is willing to use these communist ideals if it advances their self-interests.

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    2. As per Animal Farm, looking at most of the examples in history that I can think of, Communism seems to be at best a transitional phase into Oligarchy.

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