That's the irony. The entire left/right spectrum was dreamt up to polarize people toward two flavors of totalitarianism, when the rulers literally don't care which one they get...as long as they get one.

The Chinese Communist Party calls itself communist, but it seamlessly shifted its policies from communist to fascist, and the only difference it made was to make the abject tyranny more sustainable.

That's the irony. The entire left/right spectrum was dreamt up to polarize people toward two flavors of totalitarianism, when the rulers literally don't care which one they get...as long as they get one.

The Chinese Communist Party calls itself communist, but it seamlessly shifted its policies from communist to fascist, and the only difference it made was to make the abject tyranny more sustainable.