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It's a key component of dictature, not especially of communism.

Vietnam today might be even less communist than China.




It's a key component of communism when that one party is a communist party. It is definitely not "name only" (the claim to which I was replying).

I would agree that Vietnam is probably less communist than China. That doesn't really impact my point.


It’s called the Communist Party, but its agenda and policies are not particularly Communist.


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