>>514951602
China are quite literally a communist country. Everything they are doing, in the long term, is to build communism step by step. If it was still the 90s/2000s, it would be easy to pretend that they're "not real socialism", that they've given up the ghost and are now cynically pursuing capitalism under the veil of communism. But 35 years down the line from the fall of the USSR it's pretty apparent that they are holding true to their ideals.
While the West labours under a dire housing crisis, China is actually building a massive surplus of apartments to keep rents low and put the landlords in their place. The CCP have raised millions of people out of poverty with their polices over the past couple of decades while the West continues to fall apart at the seams. In China, corporations and financial institutions are subject to the state, and not the other way around. A maximum wage is imposed on the banking class. Much of the major companies in China are state-owned, and the ones that aren't may as well be, because the CCP keeps them on such a tight leash.
The great irony of all this is that right-wingers in the West will smear you as a communist if you try to impose reasonable regulations on companies or increase the minimum wage by a few cents. But now that China has proven it's superiority to the world, they try to claim China's achievements for themselves. China would never be where they are today without Marxism-Leninism. The capitalist's greatest folly is that he believes himself to have earned his wealth through intelligence rather than exploitation. This leads him to believe that communists "don't understand economics". It is in fact the capitalist who doesn't understand economics. Because the capitalist doesn't understand that value is not actually subjective and you can't run a country based purely on usury and rentierism. You need to actually build things.