Is there a difference between "Capitalism" of America and the "Communism" of China?
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If you can't spell prosperity, how do you expect to accomplish it?
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I am not a communist but in know this.\nCapitalism and Communisima are in a fight to the death.\nCaptilism has better PR.\nWhat we call Communism like Russsia Cuba China is not real communisim its not close, it is pretty much Fascism with the rehtoric of the worker, people ect. Those were horrible, Capitlism is horrible too but not as bad, depends on where you are in the food chain....\n\nIn theory shouldn't everyone be equal. Wouldn't god want that. isn't that what Heavan in our Christian doctrine is all about.\n\nHumor me now.....\nImagine if Heavan were physical place, during the 50 we would be threating to Bomb them....
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China is an ILliberal capitalist country.  They are communist in name only, probably because they'd find it too embarrassing to admit that they've totally abandoned communism and did so years ago.  But they did nto abandon their autocratic control-freak government.
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If George Bush has his way, this country will run exactly like China. Government spying on citizens, and consolidation of power in the hands of a few.\n\nEvery communist country there ever was turned out this way. That is why the republicans are fundamentally more communist than are the democrates. If you are looking at the philosophical principles of "equality" in communism, then democrates are more communist than republicans. But if you are looking at the actual reality of communism, which are basically just forms of dictatorships, republicans are more communist. \n\nRepublicans are basically anti-capitalist. This may seem odd as they always play themselves as being pro-capitalist, but they are really pro-feudalism. They are against competition. They see that capitalism without countering principles of socialism to balance it can quickly and easily be turned into a form of feudalism in which those in power maintain their power through financial superiority rather than sheer military might. This was similar under feudal systems, in which the Kings and Queens maintained power by virtue of the fact that they had so much money. They used that money to buy a military for themselves, and to enforce their will upon others. That is essentially the ideal of the republicans as well. \n\nCapitalism, which was born out of the Western Enlightenment and the birth of liberalism, depends on competition to maintain its health. Republicans are fundamentally against competition, and all their policies are aimed at consolidating corporate power into the hands of a few (in otherwords, they are pro-monopolies -- they are also against workers rights and unions). They maintain the illusion that they are pro-capitalist because they focus on the idea that socialism and capitalism are fundamentally polar opposites, so that there are no governmental policies to help gaurantee that healthy competition continues. But being opposed to socialism isn't pro-capitalism, it is pro-feudalism. \n\nLikewise the Chinese did the exact same thing, just in the opposite direction. They claim to be pro-communist, but they are really pro-feudalism (where the power is in the hands of a few, and competition is at a minimum), just like the republicans. They managed this by stressing that socialism and capitalism are mutually opposed. By riding the country of competition, they could make sure the government alone had the final say. In otherwords, just like the republicans they are fundamentally anti-competition. They translated "equality among the people" to mean, "equality among the people EXCEPT the government". Which is basically just a form of fuedalism. People who have ties to the government for one reason or another enjoy riches, the masses lie stuck with no real upward mobility. (Although this is changing to a degree.) So they are exactly like republicans in that they see socialism and capitalism as mutually opposed, and the end result on either end is the same, feudalism. It just takes a capitalist system longer to get there because it takes it longer to consolidate the power into the hands of a minority. But following our present course that will inevitably happen, and we won't be any fundamentally different than communist China if we continue to follow republican strategies, because it will be impossible to compete against those who have all the power. And once this happens, the government will automatically have the green light to spy on, and lock away citizens, as there will be nothing to keep them from doing so. The press will basically be controlled by the powerful few (who will control the corporate and government), along with everything else. We already see the first steps in this direction in the present day.  \n\nThe democrates are pro-capitalist, pro-socialist (though they will not openly admit this due to the social taboo). In other words, they are pro-mixed economies, in the vein of many present day European nations
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There isn't, nor ever has been, a Communist country - only feeble attempts by Communist politicians and governments.  But while Capitalism still has a foothold, Communism could never occur.\n\nThe US trade embargo on Cuba exists because the US government under various Presidents don't like Cuba's regime under Fidel Castro and are waiting for him to die.\n\nChina no longer suffers any US embargo because they have embraced Capitalism with fervour and, if you compare whats going on in Gauntanamo Bay (which is on Cuban soil without permission from the Cuban government) with Chinas record on Human Rights, the US has a close ally in terms of treating people badly, unfairly and cruelly.\n\nYou have asked a good question which invokes a lot of history, politics, law and economics - well done.
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"America" is not a country, it's a continent formed by three sub-continents (north, central and south america).\n\nNow about the question, since it's about the USA... Marx's wrote his works more than 100 years ago, with Germany in mind (the fact that Russia was the place where the revolution took place and was successful is still a high topic among historians) --by then, the USA was an underdeveloped country, without a big proletarian base or an industrial/urban developed production system, which was the requested condition for the revolution (again, Russia was a contradiction to this request). Therefore, you cannot apply Marx's theory 'directly' to a country today. The capitalist system has developed internal restraints and "decompressing" mechanisms that ensure that, even when the inequality and the poverty or the income distribution are ignominious, the system is not under danger of disruption.\n\nCapitalism, as Marx said, might have the seed of self destruction, but it also has selfpreservation mechanisms (corporations, NGOs, formal democracy --even in non-democratic countries--). Also, it offers what some people might call a 'messianic' or 'religious' promise: the best of the worlds is here, on earth and while you are alive, and you need money and success to attain it (I am talking about the protestant capitalism, not the catholic one, which came later): therefore, the success of capitalism is guaranteed by the fact that the lower classes want to become middle class, and middle class wants to become high class. This ensures all of them, especially the middle class, is ultra-conservative, fighting to keep the status-quo, so they can (someday) be high-class and enjoy what the system promises (of course, the status-quo needs to be based on inequality, so you have classes and people fight to escalate in the social chain).\n\nwhat do I know?...
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imperialism and capitalism
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The Republicans are kissing the Communists butts everyday now over Americans. That's because the Republicans are Communist too, it's a no brainer. Wal-Mart is Communist, RCA, Thompson Electronics, Microsoft, hell it's starting to become endless. They parade them around America, and call Communism Capitalism. How can it be Capitalism when they are not even Americans. The real word is called Monopolization with no free or fair trade, and that isn't Capitalism, it's Communism. So "RED" is for the Communists that they really are. I heard this from somebody else in here. The Conservatives choose Communism over Americans; because America can and would produce any thing that we need. America doesn't need anyone to produce our products for us. They choose to be Communist for greed, over America.
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Capitalism at least gives people the chance of getting out of poverty.  Communism only the upper party leaders have money.  In communism everyone is poor, everyone has to wait in lines for goods, merchandice is poor quality.\n\nMillions have died because of communism.  Freedom of speech is non-exsistent.  Famines due to government controls.  Communism essentially makes government god.  Give me capitalism and give me freedom.
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The emergence of China as a world power would (in the long run) augur well for the world's Balance of Power.\nThe present Unipolarity that is been experienced would change to Multipolarism with the emergence of other super powers.\nI dont really beleive that China is practising the true tenets of communism. Am sure the "gods" of communism wont be happy with the nature of comunism being practised there!!!\nChina, I believe, is tending more towards capitalism & that would in the long run help the global economy develop faster.
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American imperialism after World War 2. The US tried to stop Communism everywhere, in an attempt to manipulate everyone into thinking democracy is better than communism. The conflict is the fact that the USSR did not have a communist form of government, but was run by the so-called Communist party. The Communists didn't follow the rules of communism, and America did what it did to show us how we need to rely on our government to protect us from "evil".
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You need to understand the difference between socialism and communism. There are several socialist and quasi-socialist countries that are highly successful in the world today (market socialism).
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I'm not sure what grade level we're going for here, because if it's for  middle school, you don't want to get too complicated.\n\nEssentially though:\n\nComparision: China started implementing a lot of reforms in the late 1970s to open their communist style of government (where the government owns all the industry) to having more market style. And this has helped their industry boom to now. United States is a market based economy.\n\nContrast: US's GDP is about 10 times that of China's, and the per capita in US is also about 10 times as high. Most of US economy is the service sector (people providing services that they charge money for) whereas most of China's economy is industry (making stuff).\n\nChina's economy is growing at about 10% a year, and the US is growing at about 3% a year.\n\nAlso, a big difference in US economy/society and China is that in the US, there are more safeguards for Intellectual Property...meaning if someone creates something, we give them patents so they can say it is their idea and make money on it. In China intellectual property isn't really as valuable, so that stifles a lot of their creativity or desire to create new things.\n\nAlso a big difference is the US currency, the dollar, is traded on the open market. Meaning other people can buy or sell the dollar, so the value of it can change depending on how powerful people think our economy is. On the other hand, China's government decides how much the Chinese currency, the yuan, should be worth.
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There may be a conflict here, however  you can not have one with out the other.  True Capitalism will only work in a true democracy.  Whenever the government steps in to control all business you will usually find one type of totalitarian government or the other running things and this takes capitalism out of the equation and make for a very dreary life for those working in that country.  Capitalism is a system of hope, if you are poor in a capitalist society you have hope of climbing out of being poor.  In a non-capitalist society if you are poor that is where you can expect to stay.
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you sure do enjoy rambling, don't you?\n\nyou are pro-capitalism and anti-communism?\n\nlet's see...oh, i don't remember the question now...and i can't see it because of your slightly illogical dissertation on the benefits and perfectionistic nature of capitalism...oh well, guess i'll just give up now, as i'm not a perfect capitalist genius...\n\nanswer me this, preferably in less than 5 sentences, but in coherent, complete, grammatically correct sentences:  why is capitalism so inherently superior to communism?\nAnd I don't hate you, so please don't get mad and begin spewing comments that make you sound like an idiot.
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My understanding (from my college days), is that communism is a political system, and socialism is an economic system.\n\nSo socialism contrasts with capitalism.\n\nOnly those of us on the very far left in the US are socialists; most democrats and liberals are not -- though some believe in SOME socialism (such as Social Security and welfare for the poor, medicare, and other things).\n\nCompared to civilized countries, we don't really have much of a left here.\n\nWell, I guess the progressives are fairly left, and that's a growing group.\n\nBut most Americans, including liberals and democrats, are capitalists, with liberals and dems having slight socialist leanings.\n\nNo democrats or liberals are communist, as far as I know.\n\nThere is a communist party in the US, but it's tiny.
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Based on the following I don't think capitalism exists anywhere.  Even the US has it's controls on business and it's welfare agencies.  Prior to it's turn over to China, Hong Kong was probably the closest thing to pure capitalism on the planet.  At least that is my opinion.\n \ncap·i·tal·ism (kăp'ĭ-tl-ĭz'əm) \nAn economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market.\n\nSocialism, general term for the political and economic theory that advocates a system of collective or government ownership and management of the means of production and distribution of goods. Because of the collective nature of socialism, it is to be contrasted to the doctrine of the sanctity of private property that characterizes capitalism. Where capitalism stresses competition and profit, socialism calls for cooperation and social service.\nIn a broader sense, the term socialism is often used loosely to describe economic theories ranging from those that hold that only certain public utilities and natural resources should be owned by the state to those holding that the state should assume responsibility for all economic planning and direction. In the past 150 years there have been innumerable differing socialist programs. For this reason socialism as a doctrine is ill defined, although its main purpose, the establishment of cooperation in place of competition remains fixed.