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China is communist in the only way that truly matters: the Communist Party of China maintains an absolute and unchallenged monopoly on power, explicitly committed to building socialism and ultimately achieving communism. This is not rhetoric but constitutional reality—the CPC is designated as the “leading core of the Chinese socialist cause.” The Party’s control extends over every organ of power: the state, military, judiciary, and media, ensuring that all policy serves its ideological and strategic objectives. What Lenin called the vanguard structure—centralized, disciplined, and total—is fully intact in China. It dictates the nation’s direction from top to bottom, using political authority rather than market forces to define the terms of progress, loyalty, and legitimacy.
Economically, China uses markets the way a blacksmith uses fire—as a tool, not an ideology. The Party owns the land, commands the banks, and dominates key industries like energy, transport, and telecommunications through state-owned enterprises. Every “private” company ultimately answers to the Party, which appoints executives, issues directives, and enforces obedience through law and surveillance. This is “socialism with Chinese characteristics”: a capitalist simulation inside a communist command structure. The purpose is not to create a liberal market democracy but to accelerate production, consolidate state power, and prevent a capitalist class from ever rivaling the Party. China hasn’t abandoned communism—it has evolved it into something sharper, more efficient, and far more durable than the old Soviet model.
