Shouldn't any communistic country be considered an outlaw? Communism disregards human beings inalienable rights, creating a virtual slave-pen. China has 1.4 billion people, is that not tragic?
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Money talks China is starting to figure out citizens with money are easier to deal with than footing the whole bill.\nChina is on its way out of communism.
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I honestly believe that democracy does not work in all parts of the world. China would fail if democracy ever happened there. China is a country that has deep traditions, and for that reason China will never be a democracy. On top of that they saw what democracy did for Russia.
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Welcome to the world of political philosophy vs political propoganda.  Okay a couple of things socialism means that the government has more control over business.  MAking sure there is money for healthcare, welfare, education, etc.  There are many socailistic countries in Europe that are democratic and doing fine.  Communism is further left.  Communism is an economic model and not a political one.  You could have a democratic communism.  What has happenned is a lot of solcialistic dictatorships.  There is yet to be a true communist country.  Unfortunately human greed always ruins communism as it will do with capitalism (according to marx) and there is examples of it starting to happen now (outsourcing jobs for penny wages).  Captilism will expand until it cannot expand any further and then collapse upon itself (basically once the rich have starved the poor whats left?).  It is a very confusing issue.   Anarchy is a political model and I would say is the opposite of socialism...which is no governemnt at all.  However I have been an anarchist for awhile, not because of punk, but because I have no faith in the politcal process today.  Too much business influence and lobbyists to really help most individuals.  But the pistols do rock.
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You are confused. There is nothing more materialistic than communism. Communism began as a reaction to the selfish big capital corporations in the mid 19th century-early 20th century that seriously abused workers, including women and children. China is unique in using capitalism to fight the "free" world. Ultimately, it will win because the US has forgotten the lessons of the early 20th century about runaway capitalism.
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Not only are we endorsing the slave labor in China, we are also going to reduce our wages to the same level in order to compete.\n\nWe should not trade with nations that do not observe basic human rights.
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Most of the countries you named have had nothing to do with Communism.  Germany???  Try Fascism, which is the farthest thing from Communism you can get!\n\nI don't think you have much of a grip on history, "isms", or the current situation in the Middle East. \n\nYou sound just like the type of guy the Army is looking for....
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Your description of Communism shows a lack of understanding of what Communism is and how it works. I suggest that before you start painting Jesus as a communist you first gain an accurate understanding of what Communism is.
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.\n    Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)\n\nReligion in China is a complicated matter. The Chinese Communist Party - the ruling party in China - for a long time discouraged the practice of religion, officially because it was atheist but in reality because it believed religion was a dangerous alternative credo to communism. Despite this, people in China continued to practise their religious beliefs - often at great personal risk. During the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, large-scale religious persecutions were carried out and thousands of temples and churches destroyed.
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Please!  We all know the definition of Communism in its true since, but China, Cuba an others are still considered Communist countries.  America is a Capitalist/Socialist country as well given that we supply benefits to the elderly and many, many, many other services.\n\nRepublicans like to label Socialism as horrible as if it were a third world country democracy.  Socialism does what a government is suppose to do and that is Protect freedom, and offer services to its people.  Does this not sound like America!!!  Most Socialist countries might pay higher taxes, but there citizens dont pay for health care, retirement and many others we pay a fortune for.  Many citizens in socialist countrys live better lives than we do in America.
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China is still oppressive.  It's a paranoid government.  They don't give two craps about the universal rights of anything.
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The fundamental error of communism was that it failed to recognise exactly what the human person is; any reorganisation of human society is bound to fail if there are errors in its most basic premise. Communist philosophy does not see the individual as an end in himself but merely as a component of something greater. Progress, or the raising of human happiness, cannot be attempted at the unwilling expense of the life or liberty of the individual.  Capitalism will ultimately fail for the the same reason. It will be sustained longer because it usually goes hand in hand with some kind of respect for the freedom of the human person.\n\nFinally, both are materialisms and entirely neglect the spiritual aspect of human beings. A political philosophy not grounded in a holistic anthropology is doomed from day one. Please, don't take this as a plug for any religion, but simply as something I perceive and which time alone will cofirm or negate.
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There are many communist (China, N Korea, Cuba) and socialist countries (Sweden, Russia, France) where your ideas and assistance would be appreciated. Forgive me if I don't rush out in a lather to follow in your wake.
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China is a totalitarian Communist State; and they rule with an iron fist.  They execute 8,000 political prisoners a year in China...think about that for a second...8,000 people a year kille for their political beliefs that differ from the government.  \n\nI'm happy to be an American, and hope we can keep it that way forever.
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Communism is the ideal government but it will never work because we do not live in a perfect world. The sad fact is that people have an evil or sinful nature. The government will also be corrupt, because power is hard to control.  Socialism is maybe a better option.
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for communists, the chinese are damn good capitalists.\n\nBut to get to the point, China was a large military and the US doesn't think they need it.\n\nChina thinks it has the right to sell arms to whomever it pleases. The US disagrees (let's not forget that the US sells arms to damn near everyone)\n\nChina wants to be the Dominat nation in East Asia. The US disagrees because that would knock Japan of its pedestal.
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Because the Chinese govt. has opened its country to foreign capitalist business, and if Yahoo wants to do business in China they must play by the rules that the Chinese govt has set even if it means the good guys get caught. But money is money and that is the bottom line.
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China is a communist dicatorship where there is no such thing as free speech and seeking information about the outside world is a crime.\n\nHu went to see Bill Gates because Microsoft is a bigger threat to the Chinese government than the US is. Yahoo, Google, and all computer programs that originate outside China are a massive problem for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, and Hu is trying to tread a very fine line between allowing some restricted internet access and armed insurrection.