Japanese crossword «Half an Apple»
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Says someone who knows very little about communism, other than leftover "red scare" nonsense from the McCarthy era.
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Communism is a lack of freedom. Just look at China's treatment of the Uighurs. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-45474279 is a very neutral article of the current situation - it is actually far worse. Then go ask the people of Hong Kong why they are protesting against one ordnance. Because they know if they loose that one then it will lead to loosing all of their freedom. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49317695 Or talk to the people of Venezuela, a formerly 'rich' country and how communism has degraded their society https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/opinion/venezuela-maduro-socialism-government.html
Communism results in loss of individual thought, of freedoms, of liberty...of independence.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/24/ash-sarkar-communism-marxism-piers-morgan
replyCommunism results in loss of individual thought, of freedoms, of liberty...of independence.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/24/ash-sarkar-communism-marxism-piers-morgan
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Communism is lack of freedom of speech, of thought. My thoughts must be of the state and must support the state. There is no freedom with communism. Everything becomes a police state and people must do and act as they are told. I would not be allowed to write this if I were currently under a communist controlled society.
replyToday's China is not truly communist; it's just totalitarian. Though I concede that there has not been a free and communist country. But Norway for instance does socialism well.
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Exactly. China is a dictatorship, with a very specific kind of capitalism. Two of the main rights lacking that come to mind when we think of communism is the right to come and go and the right to own property. Both rights arguibly exist in China nowadays; most of the tourists in the world are now chinese and so are many of the world richest men. But if the CCP don’t like you, they simply emprision you and destroy your property without bothering about laws and such. That is the case, eg, of the Weiwei, possibly the most well-known chinese artist alive, who suffered both violences without any kind of justification, until he finally decided to emmigrate.
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The Scandinavian countries are not dictatorships, and their governments are nowadays socialist, in the modern sense of the word: one has a large social protection, but has to pay an enormous amount of taxes to sustain it. I guess it would be better to call them social-democrats, instead of simply socialists, in order to not allow ill-meaning and/or ignorant people to associate them to communist dictatorships or even to the nazis.
replyThank you for this very well done, and surprisingly tricky, little puzzle!
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why do i keep expecting these puzzles to turn out to be a fetus lol
replySolved by logic - a bit of predictive logic: if this, then that can't be.
Good one!
replyGood one!
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Yesterday I tried this and couldn't find a single square to fill in. Today I tried again and it was pretty easy, in an incremental way. Until I got to the middle - I had to guess once there. If anyone can explain how to do it without guessing, I would appreciate it. Thanks for the unusual subject and perspective!
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