Proposed: That China is Fascist

[Max_S]

@Melbourne

Same as a thread from 2001, that never got any traction

Is "Communist" China actually fascist?

In today’s London Times, there was a brief article “Chinese told Mao was a capitalist”. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001223954,00.html The article goes on to say that China’s new class of entrepreneurs is being embraced into the Communist Party ranks: hence the revisionism of Chinese history. Now fascism, as formulated by Mussolini and Hitler was essentially the blend of “leftist” revolutionary rhetoric with “right wing” nationalism. While fascists promoted measures such as massive…

The original topic was specifically about whether modern China’s more welcoming attitude towards capitalists/entrepreneurs makes it like 1930s fascist countries. China_Guy got it in one, IMO.

~Max