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>It seems to work for China.
I think it comes down to guiding principles.
In economic terms, real communism feeds inefficiency and systemic corruption.
Despite this, even real communism as done in the USSR, was on par with the west in terms of science (if not ahead in many fields) and people despite the propaganda did have food, housing, jobs, education, free time and so on.
In the Chinese communism, they are taking the guiding principles but working to cut the inefficiencies (hence the hybrid state/private economy and tax to gdp ratio of 20%, US is +25% while adding 7% in new debt).
So we see a smaller government than in the US and a more efficient market.
They also work against corruption with harsh penalties and a pretty rigid system where everyone has to prove their competence at every level to advance in the political hierarchy, and there are objective measurements. Bad politicians and leaders are thus usually filtered out at district levels already.
In principle this is not far away from fascism, but the ideals are just slightly different.
As long as the government works explicitly for the benefit of their people, has a juste legal system and works against corruption/inefficiency then the exact economic model or what one calls it matters very little.
Contrast this to the western systems where they work with none of this.
We just call it liberal (lol) democracy (lol x2) and a market economy.
All terms which in the context of western society reads like oxymorons.
