Since Hobby Lobby is so concerned about abortion, why do they get the goods from China, who has...

[Ken Burch]

20. it's a one party state, a dictatorship...that doesn't MEAN it's communist.

I saw the intended irony, but was pointing out that it wasn't ironic at all. Hobby Lobby(and WalMart) are just like the Chinese government: they are right-wing anti-worker dictatorships.

What China (and the Soviet Union in its day)had was dictatorship...but "dictatorship" isn't synonymous with "communism". There have been many dictatorships in world history just as vile as those states have or had that didn't even claim to have any connection with the idea of "communism"...

Small-c communism(which hasn't happened and may never happened) doesn't actually have to be a dictatorship at all. People don't have to struggle to provide daily necessities for themselves in order to be free. In fact, those struggling to survive(or to "move up" or "make it" in the American sense) are usually the most unfree people of all...the process makes them harsh, inflexible, intolerant and obsessively conformist. This is why so many of those people end up embracing some form of "fundamentalist" religion.