No, they do not.

They are two economic systems predicted by Karl Marx to be superseding capitalism,
with communism superseding socialism.

Socialism is what China currently is.

Communism is thought to be like star trek.
No one needs to use currency for their survival.
There’s no large gap between the rich and the poor.
Government plays a small to non-existent role.

The USian way of viewing socialism is “centre-right liberalism + religious democratics + social liberalism + social democracy + democratic socialism + marxist leninism” = socialism

Welcome to Lemmy, where ‘socialist countries’ means nations that follow Marxist-Leninism and not a form of modern utopian socialism better known as social democracy that took bits and pieces of Marxist-Leninism under a capitalist umbrella.

So not like Denmark, but like China or Vietnam.

Welcome to capitalism, where stuff like this is only illegal in socialist countries.

Iran condemns US attempts to exploit financing, orchestrating and managing the protests for political gain

Fixed

Yeah, they are THAT cowardly.

Okay, so I guess Iran should listen to what Israel is saying,
and kidnap Netanyahu as soon as possible.

I mean why else should Iran pay close attention to what is happening in Venezuela.

Hey brother

I’m not sure who you are responding to.
Me or @corsicanguppy.

Corsicanguppy was asked to something.
Corsicanguppy was being defeatist.
I told him to be like the ant against the grassphopper.
You’re saying that like ants, they should cooperate.
To that I say, right on! That’s the spirit!

Voting doesn’t work when the candidate needs campaign money to get voted for.
If the candidate needs campaign money to get voted in, then the candidate will automatically be corrupt,
as no one is going to freely give someone lots of money unless they expect something back from it,
and if candidates need to be on tv and pay good money for being on tv,
then the candidates choices are to be corrupt or to be unknown
and you will need to organize a different system of electing leaders.

No, it’s asking an ant to stand up against a bunch of grasshoppers.

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=UI-RFRykjTk

Is there any reason you ask this question of RT, but not of the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, AP news or Reuters?

No, I simply read wikipedia and followed the news as history took place and over the years I noticed so much hypocrisy on the US side and so little information from the other side, that I started to read more indepth to see what else might be going on.

I still remember how many times the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were called “full scale invasions of US aggression” that impede on these two nation’s sovereignity.

I also remember all the things said about “US freedom” a million times, like other countries will always use more tarrifs, because they don’t have such a great democracy like the US, which is why the US will always have the most open and free trade.

And so many more things.

Like one poster here said, most people in the west don’t become communist by reading communist propaganda, but by reading capitalist propaganda and seeing through its contradictions.

I’m beginning to admire Greta Thunberg’s actions more and more by the day.

In all four circumstaces you have US meddling with democratic rule. Chechnya went from newly formed democracy to Russia-isolated dictatorship in a blink of an eye and immediately killed the regional Russian leader, which was absolutely not what people voted for. Georgia attacked a Russian majority area. Ukraine attacked the Russian majority area in the Donbass in 2015. Crimea did not get invaded. It declared independence, because their then current leader was unelected.

China liberated Tibet since 1951 by popular demand. People were sick and tired of their absolutely brutal theocratic leader enslaving most of their populace and invited China to take control over their nation as long as they could rule as an autonomous region. The Uyghurs are a majority group in autonomous Xinjiang. What’s a minority is the ISIS-affiliated terrorist group that want a theocratic state. The South China sea was agreed upon during world war II. The US now denies that claim, because it is being a sore loser as the communist party has practically won the civil war.

The US has invaded Iraq, killed over a million people based on a complete and total lie. The US invaded Afghanistan to find a terrorist. He wasn’t there. The US invaded Libya, because they didn’t like the way Ghadaffi ran his country. The US plotted coups in every Arab nation and then called that “the Arab spring”, because they weren’t considered loyal enough to the US empire.
The US is being a sore loser protecting the Chinese Republicans that fled to Taiwan, because the communist party has practically won the civil war. The US is starting a war with Venezuela based on lies of drug trafficking, but recently being more honest that it simply wants to destroy that nation so that they can steal all of its oil.

One is not like the other two.

Hardly. You can’t just claim that because you only recognized for example the confederate states as the true United States during the civil war, that after the civil war is lost, that the Florida keys should now go to Cuba and then help the confederates to flee to Peurto Rico and declare that to be it’s own country.

This counts only if the US does it. If it was China, it would count as “a violation of the rules based global order”

Does it involve a very large razor blade?
I’m trying to keep my head on this.

I’m more surprised about how the majority of EU true believers aren’t turning their guns against the US, but instead go into full imperial lackey for the US and see nothing wrong with that, but see everything wrong with standing up against it.

China is currently at a position of strength equal to the US towards the Soviet Union during the 1980s and the only regions in the world right now that are slowly considering China their friend is China, now including Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The US is currently threatening the whole world to ram their fists through everyone’s faces and people are still praising it.

“The only way to stop a school shooter is with another school shooter.” - Anglo-American proverb

Hey, that’s not nice to falsely name someone’s country!
Be a gentleman, apologize and use the correct name for it:
KKKlanada.