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What is your most controversial opinion/belief? (lemm.ee)

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Religion doesn’t count. We’re on Lemmy, so neither does communism.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

like when people try to argue that the PRC's economy is currently socialist

The easiest counter to this is that the PRC itself does not consider its economy to be socialist.

People also seem to unfortunately like to come to a conclusion first, and then try to fit the facts to match that conclusion

Exhibit A: The whole "Western Marxist" debate. A whole lot of people will look for someone else to blame before they blame themselves or their group.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

What leads you to say that the PRC doesn’t consider its current economy socialist? I’ve only seen it referred to in official sources as the “socialist market economy” which they specify is a specific stage of socialist development but still socialist due to predominance of public ownership