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Originally Posted by daswig
The Chinese Communists are still Communists, and the cold war still goes on. The players have changed, the game is still on, and we're losing it.
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No they're not. In fact, they never were.
It's like the oft repeating accusation against the Soviets. They too were not communists and both knew and accepted as much.
Marxist, and specifically Leninist, political reasoning always stated that communism, true communism, was an end goal. Both Russia and China, even at the height of their powers, maintained that to achieve communism there was still a long struggle ahead. They maintained they were socialist states, working towards the "perfection" of a communist state.
That's one of the reasons the USSR was called the USSR (Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics), and not the USCR (figure it out).
Splitting hairs perhaps, but true none the less.
And I think you're alone if you believe the Cold War is still being waged and the US is losing it. The Cold War was the military, social and economic struggle between the "West" (or capitalist powers) and the communist parties of the USSR and allies (those behind the Iron Curtain). The war was "won' when the Soviet Union collapsed. We can argue about how that occurred and whether Reagan should be praised as winning it for the West, but it certainly is no longer being fought.
Mr Mephisto