You have an incredible amount of patience for trying to make "this economic policy has been a hallmark of approximately every attempt to do communism on a national scale" sink in.
No, it's "correlation is not causation"Enacting a protectionist policy in an overall hyper capitalist economic system.does not magically morph that system into communism
I didn't say that "correlation equaled causation". I said that attempts to enact communism on the national scale have all used protectionism as a tactic.
Just because it's A feature doesn't mean it's the defining one.
And that clear, direct explanation would have been helpful to me earlier in the conversation! And the op would not be any less goofy. Because it's not "the communism you wanted." It's a weird angle for a gotcha.
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It's the "every square is a rectangle" but econ.
Just because it's A feature doesn't mean it's the defining one.