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.
Yeah, it's weird. I think it's partially cuz of hopelessness of change in their country. But that hopelessness is often a giving up on the responsibility of taking action and organizing. China won't deliver us to global communism, that will take an international movement from people around the world.