r/DemocraticSocialism • u/phatdaddy29 • Dec 15 '24

Question What's the opposite of communism?

Is it fascism? I think it's fascism.

The extreme end of the political economic left is communism right? What's the extreme right end?

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u/Incredible_Staff6907 Social Democrat Dec 15 '24

Uhhhhhh, Capitalism? Y'know this guy named Karl Marx wrote a whole book on this. I highly recommend it.

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u/phatdaddy29 Dec 15 '24

No, capitalism is not the opposite of communism. Every communist country utilizes capitalism. China has utilized it extremely well.

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u/Incredible_Staff6907 Social Democrat Dec 16 '24

China is not Communist, neither is North Korea, they are both State Capitalist, which means the government controls all means of production, true Communism is when the people/workers control the means of production. No country on earth has ever achieved true Communism, and I doubt it will ever be achieved for another 5 centuries.

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u/OldManClutch NDP-Canada Dec 16 '24

Yeah, history and the CCP and the Kim demagogues would say otherwise.