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China is terrible and one should avoid buying from China at all costs, but doing so because they're "Communist" is ridiculous, the only "Communist" part in China is that it has a tyrannical dictatorship they is cosplaying as "Communist", otherwise they're as capitalist as it gets when it suits party interests.

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Good point. Still, one could say that party interests is a feature of every communist state, so it fits in practice.

strictly speaking, party has nothing to do with communism, in fact its singular goal is to aid the society on the path to communism, which once achieved is global, stateless and most importantly classless.

In short, the only feature of party is to make itself redundant.

Of course, that's the utopia, which has never happened (and never will), just like pure capitalism, however.

It is important to understand the underlying ideas rather than dismiss them by throwing cold-war-esque "communist" labels on everyone you disagree with / dislike.

When translating these ideals to real life:

- global means imperialistic

- stateless means only one party

- classless means only one class

In other words, utterly oppressive and regressive.

It's important that theoretical goals are noble, but the real world results should be good as well.

Such is human nature, any system when not sufficiently balanced and controlled leads to suffering and exploitation, there's nothing inherent to communist ideas that makes it any more prone to that.

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