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It's a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to refer to something as communist. China isn't communist because it's "achieved communism," it is, and has always been, communist because "achieving communism" is the nominal end goal of the ruling party's ideology. The USSR was communist. Cuba is communist. The DPRK is communist. Like China, none of these states "achieved communism."
China liberalized in order to use western economics to better industrialize. Dumbfuck westerners and radlibs take this as them lying about being communist or whatever. But, because they're communist, and with four decades of GDP growth to support future endeavors, they are now trending back in the other direction. China haters are in for some massive cope
There are certainly people who call themselves communist that miss this point too!
S4A sadens me, he does lots of great work turning communist texts into audiobooks, but then latches onto one aspect of china that blinds him to the truth. China used capitalism to beat the west at their own game, and now they get to change the rules.
And they're able to specifically because they're communist and have kept the bourgeoisie subordinate to the state!