Capitalist Communism

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Capitalist Communism (CapCom), also called Communo-Capitalism (ComCap) is an ideology representing the unity between the economic far-left and the economic right; generally, syncretism between radical socialism or communism and capitalism somewhat like Left-Rothbardianism or Distributism. This often manifests in CapCom representing Dengism (Socialism with Chinese Characteristics), in which a communist state partially allows for free-market and free-enterprise subject to state intervention. According to the Dengist interpretation of Marxism, a form of Capitalist Communism would be the transitional stage between capitalism and socialism. It can also manifest into being a vague system in which ownership of communes is sold on the free market.

Variants

Champagne Socialism

Champagne Socialism is a phrase used to describe self-identified socialists who live lifestyles of luxury and excessive self-interested spending, which conflict with political beliefs of wealth redistribution and anti-capitalism.

Market Communism

Several communist countries, for the economy not to crash, ended up adopting some minor economic reforms that allowed a small market with strong government participation and some cases (China, Vietnam and the NEP) allowed foreign investment, but still, without privately-owned means of production (according to themselves), many times using State Capitalism. Some examples could be Tito's Yugoslavia with its market socialism and certain cooperation with private enterprise, the NEP in Lenin's Soviet Union, the black indigenous entrepreneurship program of the current government in Zimbabwe, China, and Vietnam, especially on Võ Văn Kiệt, contemporary Cuba after some reforms by Raul Castro after the protests, Libya by Muammar Gaddafi among many others.

Communist Neoliberalism

Communist Neoliberalism is an attempt to merge communist political structures with neoliberal economic policies. It has been primarily seen in China and Vietnam since their respective market reforms. While maintaining the dominance of their ruling communist parties, these states have embraced market-oriented mechanisms such as privatization of certain industries, foreign investment, and global trade integration, creating a hybrid system of state-controlled capitalism.

While Market Communism typically aims to preserve socialist elements with limited market participation, Communist Neoliberalism goes further by adopting neoliberal tools—deregulation, competitive markets, and supply-side reforms—while still maintaining significant state intervention. Unlike Western neoliberalism, which emphasizes minimal government interference, these states maintain a strong regulatory role, using state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and industrial policy to shape economic growth.

This model is highly controversial, with some arguing it has betrayed Marxist principles in favor of economic pragmatism, while others see it as a necessary evolution of socialism to survive in a globalized world. It has led to rapid economic development but also widening inequality and the rise of a wealthy elite, challenging traditional socialist narratives.

Crony Socialism

Crony Socialism is the utilization of at least a nominally socialist system to give privileges to cronies, with political favors being a used as method of obtaining wealth, not cash. It usually manifests itself in a socialist system in decay. For example, the Brezhnev-era USSR gave high-ranking party members privileges comparable to the upper class in a capitalist system, such as custom-made cars and mansions.

Khan-Cullorism

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Personality

CapCom is usually presented as rather eccentric, with them being CCP's number one apologist and really loving Pepsi as his drink of choice.

How to Draw

Flag of Capitalist Communism

CapCom's flag is a diagonal bicolor of yellow (representing capitalism) and red (representing communism.

1. Draw a ball
2. Color the top left part yellow, and the bottom right red
3. Draw the eyes
4. You're finished!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Yellow	#FFFF00	rgb(255, 255, 0)
	Red	#FF0000	rgb(255, 0, 0)

Relationships

Friends

• State Capitalism - I'm not you! And yet, we are so alike
• Anarcho-Capitalism - Good business partner.
• Financialism - Provide more funds to workers' enterprises!
• Left-Rothbardianism - Even better business partner.
• Laissez-Faire Socialism - Now we are talking!
• Dengism - Literally me in practice!
• Đổi Mới - Same as above but in Vietnam.
• Distributism - A pleasant acquaintance.
• Mutualism - My favorite of the trade theories but please knock off the antisemitism...
• Progressive Conservatism, Archeofuturism and Anarcho-Totalitarianism - Opposites gang! Progcon is too moderate
• Titoism - Kinda...?
• Gorbachovism - Pretty good reforms, buddy. Soviet Pizza Hut time!
• Yan Xishan Thought - "a comprehensive system of belief that embodied the best features of militarism, nationalism, anarchism, democracy, capitalism, communism, individualism, imperialism, universalism, paternalism and utopianism."? BASED!
• Guevarism - I love selling t-shirts with your face on them!
• MAGA Communism - Fellow Ron Paul Maoist/Libertarian Stalinist/Marxist-Trumpist.
• Chavismo - Hurray for the bolibourgeoisie.
• Capitalism and Socialism - My Parents! Can you stop fighting in front of me though?

Frenemies

• Social Democracy - Communism isn't bad, neither is Laissez-faire.
• Social Libertarianism - Libertarian SocDem? BASED. Welfarism? Not so based.
• Social Capitalism - You're so close! Just dump the stupid Welfare.
• Leninism - The NEP was epic, but for the rest I'm not fully sure.
• Afunism - Fellow fan of both Kagame and Sankara. but what do You mean that the Nationhood is more important than Capitalism and Communism? He, like statecap, wants the state to input on the market.
• Yellow Socialism - Using capitalism to achieve socialism? Based!
  • The “yellow” in my name doesn’t refer to capitalism.
• Liberal Socialism - Liberalism is a capitalist ideology + socialism? Based! But be less anti-communist though…
  • But the "liberal" in my name doesn't mean economic liberalism.
• Schwabism - We all like the Public-Private Partnership, but why don't you like me?
• Marxism–Leninism - I miss the Soviet Union, but why do you say I'm a revisionist? I just developed Marx's ideas.
• Corporatocracy - Er, a good business partner, my mentor and friend at the same time, But half of the time you will be against me:(

Enemies

• Italian Left Communism - Stop calling me a revisionist.
• Avaritionism - Stop saying I'm not a capitalist.
• Libertarianism - Libertarian Fantasy, Police State Reality
  • You idiot Although it is not wrong to use the state to protect freedom
• Fascism - Neither capitalism, not communism? Screw the Third Position! The Allies defeated you in WWII, proving the possibility of effective cooperation between capitalists and communists.
• Feudalism - He also rejects both capitalism and communism.
• Peruanismo - What is this "neither capitalist nor communist" bullshit? CHOOSE BOTH!
• Peronism - Same as above.
• Class Dealignment - When all workers are entrepreneurs, there is no need for Class Dealignment, you idiot.
• Falun Gong - What's wrong with investing in China?
• Austrian School - The corporate socialism you said sounds like me. What's wrong with corporate socialism?

Further Information

Literature

• For a New Community: The Communo-Capitalist Manifesto by the Gold and Red Think Tank
• Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable Story of the American Capitalists who Financed the Russian Communists by Anthony C. Sutton
• People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism (Google Preview) (Buy) by Jacobin Leigh Philips and Michał Rozworski

Videos

• Communo-Capitalism: Capitalism but we regularly eat the rich || ComCap / CapCom by Jreg
• Fast Food in the USSR: The History by NFKRZ
• How Pepsi Won the USSR ... And The Almost Lost Everything by Business Casual
• Anarcho-Capitalists and Communists are the same thing by TheBurgerkrieg
• Capitalism lives when communism is in capitalism by Huh Kyung-young Lectures
• Taco Bell Commercial - Viva Gorditas 1998
• Amazon creates the socialism dream

Champagne Socialism

• Anatomy Of A Champagne Socialist by ShortFatOtaku

Khan-Cullorism

• BLM Is A Race Grift by ShortFatOtaku
• #BLM: Buying Liars Mansions by ShortFatOtaku

Online Communities

• r/CommunoCapitalism
• BreadTube
• Gold And Red Discord

Gallery

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  Old design, Chinese eyes
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  by Hydro (Asian eyes)
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