Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country?
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 months agoI believe the thinking is that you can’t really have the state wither away while capitalist states remain predominant on the planet.
Quokka@quokk.au 2 months ago
And capitalist states will remain as long as you have capitalists.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Gotta disagree here. You can have capitalists without them being in control of the state. That’s what most of Europe was during the early modern period. Capital existed, but political institutions were mostly still geared around the aristocracy and the Catholic church.