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Oh, right, a communist country is one where there are non-state owned enterprises that people can get rich investing in.
Generating capital is definitely a feature of communism as long as it's fictitious capital. That's why Donald Trump is a communist.
Again, I implore you to actually read Marx. "Communism is when nobody owns a toothbrush" is just neoconservative propaganda. This isn't what any AES state practices, much less what the more academic types believe.
Nothing precludes you from generating ficticious capital in a communist system. Marxists simply recognize it as such, rather than deluding themselves into believing material value has been created when speculative asset prices rise.
Again, I've read Marx and you're putting words in my mouth.
And again, Marx did not in any way advocate for an aristocracy that own private capital (call it fictitious if you like, China does not) and run publicly traded corporations where the workers do not own the means of production. That was literally everything he was fighting against.
There is simply nothing communist about an aristocracy. You can say "read Marx" all you like. Marx was 100% against such things. I know because I read Marx.
By the way, some of those private companies are real estate companies that rent property to Chinese workers for a profit. And if I just read Marx, I'll know he was in favor of such arrangements.
I'm sure Marx would never write anything like:
That's clearly some Westen imperialist capitalist scum who thinks that way.
He recognized feudalism as a stage of development. That's very different from advocating for it.
You will routinely see Western imperialist capitalist scum furious over China's domestic ownership rules. Foreign investors can't have a majority stake in Chinese firms. Foreign patents have to be legally shared with domestic universities and labs. Foreign real estate firms can't have primary claim on domestic real property. Chinese protectionist policies guarantee Chinese citizens reap the benefit of domestic investment.
That's the core logic of Socialism, a pivotal post capitalist step that Karl Marx describes and you can learn about IF YOU READ HIS WORKS.
And it is being done within the context of Chinese history and geographic potential. One might even describe it as "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics"
Are you ever going to show me where I claimed China was majority Han or was that trolling?
I've been waiting for an answer and have given you multiple opportunities. I hope for your sake that it wasn't trolling, because you have one more chance to justify it.