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 File:LeftRothbardianismPix.png 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.

History

File:PostSoviet.png Post-Sovietism

The period following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 saw the emergence of a cluster of political figures whose governance has been retrospectively characterized as Post-Sovietism, defined less as a cohesive ideology and more as a set of common governing patterns across former Soviet states. These leaders rose from the ruins of communist structures, often former apparatchiks or regional strongmen, navigating the transition from planned economies to market-based systems while consolidating personal and party power. Their political biographies typically include involvement in the late Soviet bureaucracy, engagement with early post-independence political institutions, and a gradual accumulation of centralized authority.

Policy and governance under Post-Soviet leaders reflect Authoritarian Capitalism, where market mechanisms coexist with tight state control, and strategic industries remain under political patronage. Many adopted File:LRpop.png Fusion Populism, blending appeals to nationalism, social protection, and anti-elite rhetoric to consolidate legitimacy, while maintaining Illiberal Democracy, with elections and formal institutions present but often heavily manipulated. National Conservatism framed these states’ identities, emphasizing sovereignty, historical continuity, and cultural homogeneity as bulwarks against Western influence.

Economic and social structures under these administrations congregated into oligarchy and social authoritarianism, where wealth and privilege are concentrated among politically connected elites, and social policy is deployed to maintain public compliance rather than promote egalitarian outcomes. This governance often coincided with ultranationalism, promoting aggressive national identity, militarized patriotism, and sometimes expansionist foreign policy. Post-Soviet leaders combined these approaches to stabilize transitional states while entrenching personal and institutional power, creating hybrid regimes that remain influential in contemporary discussions of authoritarian resilience and the challenges of post-communist democratization.

File:ComNeolib.png 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 File:Marketcom.pngmarket-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 File:Neoliberalsoc.pngneoliberal 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 File:Leftcorp.pngstate-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.

File:MichaelHudson.png Hudsonism

Michael Hudson is an American economist and financial historian whose work focuses on the intersections of debt, finance, and economic power. Educated at institutions including the University of Chicago and Columbia University, Hudson began his career analyzing classical economic theory and the historical development of credit systems. Over decades, he has critiqued the modern financial system, emphasizing the extraction of wealth through debt and interest payments rather than productive economic activity.

Hudson’s analysis is strongly critical of modern banking practices by challenging the dominant role of speculative finance over productive investment. He rejects neoclassical economics, arguing that its models obscure real-world wealth extraction and the social consequences of debt. His work draws heavily on Marxist frameworks, particularly the critique of capital accumulation, while also sympathizing with File:Neo-Wolffism.pngNeo-Marxist interpretations, including Wolffian perspectives on worker control and socialized wealth.

He also engages with File:Ricardosoc.pngRicardian socialism and Georgism, advocating that economic rents—particularly those derived from land and natural resources—should be redirected toward public benefit rather than private gain. Hudson incorporates indigenism, emphasizing the economic rights of indigenous peoples and the consequences of colonial and financial expropriation on traditional economies. His work intersects with protectionist and File:Newkeynes.pngKeynesian ideas, including sympathetic engagement with Krugmanian critiques of austerity and financial orthodoxy, reflecting his broader commitment to reshaping economic policy to prioritize social equity over private accumulation.

Variants

Authoritarian Communo-Capitalism

this ideology usually refers to something like dengism(WIP)

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.

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.

File:Marketcom.png 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.

Khan-Cullorism

WIP

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.
• File:RedBankocracy.png Financialism - Provide more funds to workers' enterprises!
• File:LeftRothbardianismPix.png Left-Rothbardianism - Even better business partner.
• File:Lfreesoc.png Laissez-Faire Socialism - Now we are talking!
• Dengism - Literally me in practice!
• File:Đổi Mới.png 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...?
• File:Gorb.png Gorbachovism - Pretty good reforms, buddy. Soviet File:Pizhut.png Pizza Hut time!
• File:YanXishan.png 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?
• Marxism - But, in general, the protective system is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

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 File:NEP.png 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.
• File:Schwab.png 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.
• Communalism - Your economic model has seriously hindered the development of socialist economy, so we have to privatize the communes.
• Avaritionism - Stop saying I'm not a capitalist.
• Libertarianism - Libertarian Fantasy, Police State Reality Interesting
  • You idiot File:Post-Bert.png 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.
• File:JuanVelasco.png 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.
• File:Falun Gong Theo.png 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 File:NRPK.png Huh Kyung-young Lectures
• Taco Bell Commercial - Viva Gorditas 1998
• Amazon creates the socialism dream

Champagne Socialism

• Anatomy Of A Champagne Socialist by File:SFO.png ShortFatOtaku

Khan-Cullorism

• BLM Is A Race Grift by File:SFO.png ShortFatOtaku
• #BLM: Buying Liars Mansions by File:SFO.png ShortFatOtaku

Online Communities

• r/CommunoCapitalism
• BreadTube
• Gold And Red Discord

Gallery

• Credit: u/Monkeysszz, Source
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  Credit: u/marty_mcclarkey_1791
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  Old design, Chinese eyes
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  by Hydro (Asian eyes)
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  by Hydro