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Sarcasm. The comment you replied to was being facetious. Obviously things are not going swimmingly. Use your context clues.
Thank you for the assist. You are correct. I made the fatal assumption that most people discussing such things would have the context of Mao, the long march, the various purges, the decades of poverty, the suppression and outright murder of minorities under their belt and would recognize that the statement was so obviously false that it could only be taken as sarcasm. Unfortunately, I didn't account for people having arrogance and a sense of other people being ignorant morons by default.
Yeah no, sounds more like a dig at communism, ya know, the usual rhetoric, hey, look at this dictatorship, as you can clearly see, communism doesn't work
Is it? Seemed like a dig specifically at the fact that China doesn't have a true union movement. Not a dog at communism in general.
China isn't communist, nor very socialist, for that matter.
Capitalism with Chinese characteristics seems more of an apt description.
Pointing out that China is a dictatorship doesn't mean that socialism is bad.
Yes. I simply found it somewhat ironic that someone would point out that a Communist nation would need unions given the definition of Communism. It was to me a Monty Python level of dry humor to suggest that, and I felt my response should match that dry humor.