Soviet Communism aka Bolshevism was a disaster, having ignored the Mensheviks’ point that you can’t redistribute wealth if there is no wealth, and that the only way to create wealth is capitalism (but they in turn overlooked the fact that creating wealth and then abandoning its creation doesn’t work because wealth is perishable).
The Chinese Communists apparently got the message and encourage just enough capitalism to produce wealth to seize and redistribute. The result is sustainable, but still retards progress, leaving large fractions of the population in poverty and pollution is of the charts.
“Soviet Communism aka Bolshevism was a disaster, having ignored the Mensheviks’ point that you can’t redistribute wealth if there is no wealth, and that the only way to create wealth is capitalism...”
Ah, the Mensheviks, known today as “neo-conservatives”.