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Patience is a virtue (slrpnk.net)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

but they all exist in motion and thus will either move on to Communism or revert to Capitalism.

This is just not true... We have seen that, in practice, this does not need to be true. For example, market socialism exists. Mixed economies exist (and thrive).

I look forward to hearing why none of those pass your purity test.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

"Market Socialism," if you mean the PRC's Socialist Market Economy, is founded on Marxism. They maintain that they are working towards Communism and are working with a Marxian understanding of the economy. This isn't about "purity," rather, this is Marxist and is working towards Communism, so it's a Communist ideology.

As for mixed economies, such a naming distinction is rather pointless. All economies are mixed, there exists no economy that does not have characteristics of the previous mode of production or the next. Whether a system is Capitalist or Socialist is determinate on what is primary in an economy, not what is "pure."

Further still, no system is stagnant, competition forces centralization, so Market Socialism eventually works towards either a resurgance of Capitalism or progression to Communism.