Rancid wrote:lol whut?
It's "Communist" party by the way.
The funny part is that Fasces made the exact same argument, over and over again.
"China is not fascist because she is ruled by a Communist party and communist parties have communist ideologies."
The good part is that Fasces at the very least recognized that as far as Chinese state actions go(praxis), China is objectively Fascist.
He then proceeded to claim that state actions do not define a state, but rather its nominal ideological claims do.
So you can be a nominal democracy(for the record China is
a nominal dictatorship, constitutionally defined as such), treat your citizens and corporations like a fascist but still claim that you are a democracy.
For those who do not understand what fascism is:
Fascism is the ideology that all organizations and atoms inside a country, be it religious groups, or businesses or non-profits, or institutes must serve the state and be directed by the state.
As Mussolini put it: "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State".
This is called corporatism and as we discussed earlier mild corporatist policies can be implemented to a certain degree even by democratic states without them becoming fascist. That is especially the case during total war when the entire machinery of the economy is put to collective use under the direction of the state.
But what is it meant by 'mild corporatist policies'?
Giving out subsidies for an important national core industry, like energy or telecoms, or green projects. The state supporting industries it considers vital but without making them state-controlled enterprises.
And what is it meant by non-mild corporatist policies: Controlling the industries directly by the state and applying this level of control across the board as a matter of state policy.
In the case of China, her corporatist policies are neither mild nor temporary injections of state support, they are totalitarian.
These 2 characteristics of being a dictatorship and applying full corporatist policies make a state Fascist.
Usually, states like that also tend to be racist, totalitarian, orthodox(as in intolerant of heterodox views) as a consequence of applying total dictatorial corporatism. These things tend to happen as a result as they do in China for years, however a racist country is not fascist unless she applies dictatorial corporatism.
EN EL ED EM ON
...take your common sense with you, and leave your prejudices behind...