China's Capitalism

Names can be misleading.   They are only mental and linguistic constructs used to communicate a concept from non-telepathic mind to non-telepathic mind.  Words and the phrases formed by them can be invented, used, restructured, or used in new contexts as best suits the desires of a person, and not everyone is rational.  The vast majority of humankind is far from living for the necessary truths and absolute certainties of reason or for the unyielding obligations of morality (if the latter exists as evidence for Christianity points to, then how we should live is what people should do regardless of convenience or preference), and thus they can inanely use words to promote fallacies and deception.

The CCP, or Chinese Communist Party, exemplifies this.  Neither communism nor capitalism has to be implemented in a destructive manner, though the stupidity of most people will almost always lead to mass devastation of one kind or another.  China is associated in name with communism even as it practices a very aggressive form of capitalism in its production and exports.  The country is responsible for a deluge of products that are inexpensive and of poor quality in other nations; it is also the largest user of coal, the most environmentally damaging of the fossil fuels, as a collective.  Groundwater toxicity, air pollution, and discarded plastic are the consequences of how China has approached production motivated by consumerism.

A country that pollutes its own land and sky to such a high degree or that floods the planet with flimsy, cheap imitations of more durable, recognized products is practicing a reckless form of capitalism.  Not every possible type of capitalism would lead a region to this, and only fools believe otherwise, but it is not something that a government or corporation would bother with except for the love of profit, nationalist and emotionalistic patriotism, and apathy towards environmental and humanitarian concerns.  To clarify, capitalism and nationalism are absolutely not connected by necessity despite how a ruling class can appeal to both for egoistic power.  That the acronym CCP abbreviates the Chinese Communist Party does not mean that the nation of China is not ruthlessly capitalistic.

When American conservatives complain about how socialistic or communistic China is, they are misunderstanding or ignoring the reasons why a country would ever produce so much at the cost of human and environmental safety.  Greed and power, which American capitalism is also ultimately about, are not what would drive people to have a genuinely classless society of communal ownership and aid, which is what some members of the early church abided by in Acts 2:44-47--though this is in no way obligatory, it is not at all predatory in itself or Biblically evil.  China is renowned for its reported authoritarianism, self-serving (for those in power) consumeristic output, and destruction of its own environment and that of the world as a whole by extension.  China's irrationalistic form of capitalism is on full display even if every American conservative looks away.