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.
Agreed. To me, a leftist in 2021 should view China in the way that a leftist in 1914 could have viewed the United States-- progressive in some unique ways, a better alternative than the current ruling empire, but by no means representative of the end goal for the left.