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Their physical products, yes.
Not the design.
You are missing the forest for the trees.
Look at definitions of words.
Look at the world.
I'm portuguese. We have a supermarket company called Pingo Doce. Pingo Doce has their fisical headquarters in the Netherlands...we're they pay little taxes...
I have Portuguese people proud of Pingo Doce and buy all their shopping there..."it's a Portuguese brand"
It was. But not anymore. Not only it's not Portuguese, it robs us, and takes our money to the Netherlands.
You may want to keep saying it is ndeed a portuguese brand of supermarkets...but it simply isn't.
And apple and Samsung...I don't care were they originated. My point is that both are produced in China....a state...we're the workers are not owners of the means of production, but slaves to capitalist corporations.
How the fuck people think china is communist...don't people read anymore? Doesn't definitions have importance?
Because every country claiming to be communist does things like this, or are authoritarian things using Marx's, Lenin's or even Trotsky's definitions of Communism loosely as a method of control or a power grab.
Where is this ideal Communist state that is the exemplar of the pure Communism you're espousing? You've already discarded the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and North Korea. Now you've expanded your exclusionary definitions to include any communist country that manufactures goods for capitalist countries. Well that wipes out even Vietnam and Laos which make lots of consumer and industrial goods for other countries including the West.
To me it looks like you've no true scotsman'ed yourself out of any nation as a candidate.
So you tell me: Where is your communist country you aspire to? Where is your example communism working without authoritarianism or selling to capitalists?