How China Waged A Covert War On The US Using Covid-19
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Menu There is no diplomatic solutionIsrael should declare three nos;
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
The American left is moving in the same direction.
@ REBEL: Good points. Communist China can be viewed as a corporatist-fascist state. Nazi Germany also had a corporatist-fascist economy, where the state controlled all economic activity, but non-Jewish-owned businesses were allowed to exist, provided they carried out state edicts.
However, in the fascist states, non-Jews were allowed to own land. Even many farmers owned their own land. In contemporary China, all land, including farmland, is still owned by the state.
Communist regimes never tried to share wealth equally. This was just a slogan. Communist Party members, and especially senior officers of the party always had a much higher standard of living than the common people. In Stalin’s Russia,The population was organized into nine economic classes, with more privileges and income for the upper classes and few priviliges and income for those in the lower orders. Membership in the party was by invitation only–not everyone were allowed to join. You had to undergo training as a “candidate” member before you were let in to this priviliged society.
The ruler, Joseph Stalin, actually possessed 36 “dachas” for the sole use of himslef and his family. Many of these “country homes” were palaces that had been built for the tsars and upper nobility in the past, now renovated for Stalin’s use. Other party leaders did not have as many dachas. But all had at least one. Ordinary people did not have dachas. THey were housed in extremely small and crampt apartments, often without heat and only erratic electricity. They were brutally exploited in factories, with low wages and unsafe, unhealthy working conditions, constant work speed-ups. They were not to go on strike. The peasants were systematically starved to death, their produce confiscated without compensation. Tens of millions were forcibly relocated from their homes, many of them dumped in isolated, frigid localities in Siberia and Centrall Asia where they starved to death. Additional millions were forced to work as slave laborers under the most brutal conditions, and housed in concentration camps. Not many survived the experience.
The fact that all property in theory belonged to the state was meaningless, since only members of the small privileged elite had access to luxury goods, first-class restaurants, and luxurious houses and apartments. Only members of the elite had cars, usually driven for them by chauffeurs.
The same situation prevailed in Communist China under Mao.
It is not true that present-day China is a capitalist country. It is a communist country disguised as a capitalist one. The state still owns all land. Individuals can aquire title to their houses and apartments, but not to the land they live on. Many seemingly private companies are actually 100% state owned, although this is carefully concealed from the public in the U.S. and other Western countries in which they invest,and where they have managed to acquire listings on the New York and other major stock exchages.
Even companies where private investors own a majority of the shares, the government nearly always owns a substantial stake. No corporation can make any decision without government approval in advance. Businessmen and companies that seek to ignore or defy government regulations are jailed or placed under house arrest and prevented from travelling abroad or even contacting foreigners. That is what happened to Jack Ma of Ali Babba, who was once the richest man in China. He has been held incommunicado for months now.
Absolute true, China is following more like the corporate fascist modell á la Mussolini’s Italy.