Polls opened in Hong Kong's first "patriots only" district council election on Sunday, with officials dismissing concerns of potentially low turnout in a race that has shut out all opposition candidates…
You’re not wrong that China is state capitalist but they still are run by the same communist party founded by Mao even if their economic policy has shifted. There is something to be said for the fact that every communist country I can think of has ended up becoming extremely authoritarian regardless of how closely they stick to an actual communist economy. I could see a case for Vietnam or Cuba but I still see a lot of repression of freedom of expression and speech as counter revolutionary in both. If communism is the best economic system it should be able to withstand criticism without repression.
Also the way they suppress workers demonstrations and worker rights despite claiming that they represent the workers and the proletariat is peak political hypocrisy in the case of “communist” regimes. The “communism” was hijacked from its very beginning
You’re not wrong that China is state capitalist but they still are run by the same communist party founded by Mao even if their economic policy has shifted. There is something to be said for the fact that every communist country I can think of has ended up becoming extremely authoritarian regardless of how closely they stick to an actual communist economy. I could see a case for Vietnam or Cuba but I still see a lot of repression of freedom of expression and speech as counter revolutionary in both. If communism is the best economic system it should be able to withstand criticism without repression.
Also the way they suppress workers demonstrations and worker rights despite claiming that they represent the workers and the proletariat is peak political hypocrisy in the case of “communist” regimes. The “communism” was hijacked from its very beginning