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Originally Posted by GirlySports
It's very strange, China is socialist in many areas and capitalist in many areas. Take healthcare for example. A hybrid of public and private healthcare, mostly private. Private meaning paid for or guanxi (personal relationships). Imagine a world here you can scalp tickets to see the doctor. So you've got these massive multi-plex hospitals for the rich and connected and then you have hospitals with nothing in podunk village. This causes severe inequality between the rich and the poor.
I've always said, one of the main thing that holds communism back is crony-ism, which is is opposite of the communist ideology of equality for all.
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If the only thing that's holding it back is something that inevitably happens to every place where this system takes hold, maybe it's the system that's creating it.