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It's still capitalism when the government does things. It's not a mix of capitalism and socialism or whatever, it's just capitalism because what matters is who is in control. Under capitalism there is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, the owners of capital. Hence, capital-ism.
Under capitalism, corporations take over the government and use it to their own ends. Under communism, the government takes over the corporations and uses them to it's own ends. Either outcome ends up looking pretty much the same.
What we have in the west, especially America, is far more than just "the government doing stuff". Government power and corporate power have become nearly indistinguishable. Corporations don't make long term investments of any kind without government grants to ensure consistent steady profits. We are constantly at war, and those wars consistently serve corporate interests.
On the other side, every large scale implementation of Communist ideals has resulted instead in state capitalism.
No, that is Leninism. Not communism. Those groups called themselves communist, communist party, communist Republic etc. But we're not communist in any significant sense beyond nominally.
Replace every time you mention communism with Leninism or ML and I largely agree however. Russia evolved into fascism. China is absolutely state capitalist. North Korea 100% a dictatorial nepo-state. But not because of communism.
Marxist-leninism is literally the base from which most communist theory exists. Most communists are some flavor or branch of ML, because it gets the goods.
You can't be a communist and reject all experiments at communism as "not real communism"
Yeah, after it was couped by US backed traitors and the US enforced fascism.
Why is their industrial output not falling as they're firmly in the middle income country bracket then?
(If you can't understand the contradiction you haven't read enough theory about imperialism and neo-imperialism)
Yeah, and they make all the grandpas push the one train whenever it breaks down. The rats eat the children and the children eat the rats. /s
Have you actually looked at the government structure of the DPRK? You seem to be parroting a lot of state department propaganda for someone speaking with authority on what "real" communism is.