10-24-2017, 05:32 AM
(10-23-2017, 09:46 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: I was in school in the 1950s-60s, I was repeatedly told that the
difference between Communism and Nazism was that in Communism the
government owned all the businesses (which was "good"), while in
Nazism it was still a capitalist system (which was "bad"), but the
government still controlled everything. That's exactly the economic
system that China has today. It's pure National Socialism (Nazism).
You might not want to put too much trust in teachers who thought Communism was good and capitalism was bad.
The fact is, National Socialism is not capitalist at all; it's socialist. In Germany, it happened to include former "captains of industry" in its chain of command, but the only difference from Communism was that the central planning apparatus was less tightly controlled by the dictator.
The term "socialism with a Chinese character", it should be noted, was first used by Mao to differentiate Chinese Communism from Soviet Communism. Mao's Communism was, of course, even more disastrous economically.
Since then, Deng and Xi have used the same words to refer to different things. Deng introduced a free market, while still maintaining state control of large industry. Between Deng and Xi, free market industry started overtaking state industry. Xi is just trying to get the new large industries under control, mostly because he wants them investing in China's rural interior, rather than overseas.
Your analysis of Xi's plans for the Chinese economy, while correct, actually point up differences from National Socialism, rather than similarities. Your description of what Xi wants is closer to national capitalism rather than national socialism.
