If you imagine that you have cast-iron definitions of these terms, then you're doing better than most of left-wing organisations that use them. Socialism can be used to mean anything from social democracy to trotskyism. A better defintion for China is 'state capitalism': that is, a ruling class and surplus value exploitation exist without a free market function. This theory also helps you understand how after the collapse of 'communism' in Russia, the same people stayed in charge of the factories and mines. But I don't imagine that PRC's choice of Linux is anything other than an economic one: free beer indeed.
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If you imagine that you have cast-iron definitions of these terms, then you're doing better than most of left-wing organisations that use them. Socialism can be used to mean anything from social democracy to trotskyism. A better defintion for China is 'state capitalism': that is, a ruling class and surplus value exploitation exist without a free market function. This theory also helps you understand how after the collapse of 'communism' in Russia, the same people stayed in charge of the factories and mines. But I don't imagine that PRC's choice of Linux is anything other than an economic one: free beer indeed.
Danny