# Proposed: That China is Fascist **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 27, 2021, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-that-china-is-fascist/940820 "2021-04-27T00:28:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 66
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-that-china-is-fascist/940820/66 "2021-05-28T18:01:00Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > Same as a thread from 2001, that never got any traction > [@Is "Communist" China actually fascist?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-communist-china-actually-fascist/71039): > > 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](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 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-that-china-is-fascist/940820)._