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by somedude895 962 days ago
State capitalism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism
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Clubber 962 days ago
Can you differentiate state capitalism from Communism? Sounds like a No True Scotsman argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

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colpabar 962 days ago
It's pretty simple - communism is "real communism" when it works, and it's not when it doesn't. It's similar to how it's not "real capitalism" when things go wrong in a capitalist system.
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