″ The Cold War meme died when the divide between Capitalism and Communism ceased to be meaningful. The Chinese Communist Party manages the world’s largest capitalist economy. ”
Neither of these claims really seems to be correct to me. They strike me more a memenic statement than a true representation of history or the state of the world today.
I do agree that the terms socialism, capitalism and communism all are poorly defined and enjoy a lot of equivicational use where speakers are talking past one another.
I would say the cold war meme “died” not due to labels having meaning or clearly separating form of governance but because the “radical” communist disappear—by that I mean the communist regimes (USSR, primarily, and China) both stopped acting in as empires bent on extending imperial reach and dominance and expanding their borders.
″ The Cold War meme died when the divide between Capitalism and Communism ceased to be meaningful. The Chinese Communist Party manages the world’s largest capitalist economy. ”
Neither of these claims really seems to be correct to me. They strike me more a memenic statement than a true representation of history or the state of the world today.
I do agree that the terms socialism, capitalism and communism all are poorly defined and enjoy a lot of equivicational use where speakers are talking past one another.
I would say the cold war meme “died” not due to labels having meaning or clearly separating form of governance but because the “radical” communist disappear—by that I mean the communist regimes (USSR, primarily, and China) both stopped acting in as empires bent on extending imperial reach and dominance and expanding their borders.