Re: Re: Re: Prince Bush wimps out against Communism

[Jim Devine]

I think it's pretty obvious, so I haven't commented on this point before, 
but I want to object to referring to China as "communism" (in the subject 
line).

In Marxian terms, China has never been "communist." It's a country that's 
ruled by a party that calls itself "communist." To my mind, China's an 
example of bureaucratic socialism (known by its initials as BS) in 
transition to authoritarian capitalism (a.k.a. fascism).

China was "communist" only in the Cold War "war of ideologies" ideology 
(Democracy vs. Communism or Totalitarianism, in the eternal Manichaean 
battle of the titans).

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine