Genuine question so please don’t hate on me. It seems to me that china now is more of a mixed market than a planned economy. Billionaires and class disparities definitely still exist in China and it seems like american communists almost romanticize china while ignoring obvious flaws in its system, only because they (rightfully) hate america and america hates China. China also supplies all of the world’s exploitative corporations with the vast majority of their goods. While China is probably better than the capitalist economies of the west, I don’t understand why a lot of people seem to hold it in the same regard as the USSR.
I have unironically seen ultras (chuang) argue that because of the imperial core's reliance on Chinese industry that China must be made to collapse to bring down the imperial core, as if such a crisis wouldn't just result in the US backing reactionary and liberal factions in a balkanized China and ending up directly controlling client states around the current centers of Chinese industry the same way the US already controls Japan and South Korea.
isn't the actual, less insane take that this means that China could cripple the US anytime they want and this is actually amazing?
Yes.
Sprinting in and collapsing the world economy as a means of revolution seems pretty galaxy brain on multiple levels (including what you said)
The amount of mental gymnastics ultras use to try and justify their chauvinism / racism is incredible.