I’m not saying US businesses are more free in China, though to some degree they are. Apple hasn’t signed over the IP for the iPhone to China in order to manufacture there. My point is that Chinese entrepreneurs have less red tape, regulation, taxation, litigation, unions, political correctness, diversity training, etc to deal with, so it is easier for them to start a business than for a comparable US entrepreneur to start a business in the US. It is one reason we celebrate 3% growth while China is disappointed with 7%.
It is impossible, of course, to carry out all these measures at once (i.e. the ten planks of communism), but one will always bring others in its wake. Once the first radical attack on private property has been launched, the proletariat will find itself forced to go ever further, to concentrate increasingly in the hands of the state all capital, all agriculture, all transport, all trade. All the foregoing measures are directed to this end; and they will become practicable and feasible, capable of producing their centralizing effects to precisely the degree that the proletariat, through its labor, multiplies the country’s productive forces.Merely a means to an end. As people are entrapped by “economic freedom” in the one-Party state in Red China, the allies of that Party in the country that has been the one biggest historical enemy of communism make things difficult in its most important economic centers and unable to fight back.
Finally, when all capital, all production, all exchange have been brought together in the hands of the nation, private property will disappear of its own accord, money will become superfluous, and production will so expand and man so change that society will be able to slough off whatever of its old economic habits may remain.
— The Principles of Communism