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Hello! It’s May Day again!

On By rushbabe49In Authoritarianism, business, cats, Culture, Economics, Education, environmentalism, Fun and Games, government, History, humor, immigration, literature, Media and the Internet, Media bias, Music, Nature, Politics in the Age of Trump, Progressive "Thought", social media, transportation, Washington State Politics1 Comment

In the recent past, May Day looked a lot like this in most places. https://twitter.com/rj_abel/status/2050193893719720057?s=20 https://twitter.com/HWarlow/status/2050126366482243986?s=20 Artist above is Margaryta Yermolaeva. Even black cats celebrate May Day! https://twitter.com/BluebellRaven/status/2049953525824967108?s=20 Unfortunately, May Day acquired a new meaning in the 20th Century, and that new meaning is not quite as joyful or benign as its previous celebratory meaning. …

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Communist China acts like a Communist Dictatorship. Worldwide investors, including Americans, are surprised.

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What's wrong with this picture?  Since 1949, China has been ruled over by the Communist Party.  The most prominent feature of Communism is "State control over the means of production".  That means that the Government (the State) owns, or controls, the Economy.  In the 1960s, after the death of Mao Zedong, his successor Deng Xiaoping …

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