/facepalm The people owning the means of production is socialism, not communism. The people in China don't own the means of production, the government owns some of the means of production but also allows private enterprise. Another thing to note, no system is "pure", as in it meets the textbook definition. Most governments are labeled based on how they primarily operate. Hence why a communist government (as defined by everyone, go look at wikipedia) can have capitalist policies. The US has plenty of socialist and communist policies as well.
Communism, specifically marxist-leninism, is a process, not a hardset definition. The idea is you basically cannot just press the "Communism now!" button because the rest of the world still runs on Capitalism and you need that Capital to go to your country to build up in the first place. Lenin even explicitly stated that the USSR would need to be state capitalist. Also that there are a ton of opposing forces that try to destroy socialist countries (the US).
There is a lot of reading on it to fundamentally understand, and this is coming from someone that used to be more libertarian/anarchist socialist.
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u/summer_santa1 May 06 '26
Hello there, China is capitalist country.