I'm often curious why people refer to certain dictatorships as 'communist' when a pure communist state, as envisioned theoretically, has never truly existed. Wait, I take that back—there is a country that implemented a centrally planned economy, much like the theoretical communist ideal. Which one? You guessed it: China.

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I'm not sure when China was communist or how you'd have a "country" with communism

China is pretty strongly communo-capitalist now, like the US. Taxes for the poor, handouts for the rich

My central point is indeed the misappropriation and unreflective misuse of the term 'communism'

Reddit would be a better app for this friend

Nope. I'm banned from Reddit, it wouldn't work at all for replying to me

lol

I'm with you then