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How can it be capitalism when it doesn’t involve the ones at the top rigging the game in their advantage

>>15598611
>confusing capitalism with freedom of opinion
lol
>The excerpt comes from Mao
LOL well he and the CCP sure stuck to those principles huh

What part of this goes against Marxism?

>>15598654

freemarket or free enterprise in the realm of science and art is still capitalism

>>15598665

mao is kind of contradictory in the little red book

One moment he'll say something surprisingly libertarian and then say something authortarian the next

>>15598611
Mao used the Hundred Flowers campaign to identify opposition and then eliminate them. It was either a stratagem from the start to ensare opponents, or it was a mistake quickly put to good use as evidence gathering to annihilate dissent.

>>15598611
commes are incoherent totalitarian assholes, they literally seethe at the idea of some group of people starting a business

>>15598665
>free market or free enterprise
Freedom of exchanging ideas isn't capitalism dude. Capitalism requires making surplus value off the fact you own means of production that your hired workers actually use in their labor, or surplus value off the mere buying and selling for profits, or worse, surplus value off lending and taking back, or owning fluctuating stocks, or market speculation. Capitalism is about making profits in ways not related directly to your labor, but to owning something and being in a position of power to charge extra or pocket money that should go to the workers.

>>15598689
>>15598718
Retards. What you are talking about is Capitalism. Under communism the government controls enterprise

>>15598693
Without ever having read it, I’m more than willing to bet that the libertarian parts apply to him and his allies, and the authoritarian parts to his enemies

The Hundred Flowers refers to refers to a specific 1956 period of liberalism that preceded the Anti-Rightest Campaign of 1957-59 which used evidence gathered from the Hundred Flowers campaign's solicitation of alternate views to purge the CCP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Rightist_Campaign

>>15598783

it was under the guise of freedom of expression and free thought. i wonder what happened lol

mao kind of predicted modern china. he saw how the ussr was becoming capitalistic and thought china would eventually become capitalistic after his death

>>15598730
See >>15598689

>>15598730
You're fucking stupid anon. Literally just google it if you don't believe me. You're confusing libertarianism with capitalism.

>>15598842
You're missing the historical and temperal-political context of these excerpts. A brief reading of PRC history would help.

>>15598611
How does that sound like capitalism at all? Capitalism is more
>Letting a limited number of profitable STEM projects flourish is the policy for promoting more money and a flourishing capitalist culture in our land.

People like you who see politics only through the perspective of capitalism vs socialism have their worldview tainted by humanism