Another red herring, high on rhetoric, low on facts. It's true that China remains brutal and authoritarian, but it is "Communist" in party name only. Under Mao, there were no privately owned businesses of any kind, not even mom and pop shops. Today, China's private sector accounts for far more of its GDP than its public sector. And when it comes to social services, China is probably more capitalist than we are: if you're sick in China and can't pay up front, guess what? You're not going to the hospital. More people get government subsidized welfare and health care in the US (and certainly in Europe) than in "Red" China.
No, it’s not a red herring. So-called “state capitalism” is all over Marx’s writings. And if you think that private businesses operating in China are really private, think again—China has always assaulted trade secrets while giving lip service to their protection.
A dearth of subsidized medicine is interpreted as China being further along in the transition from socialism to communism, BTW. Even the 1936 USSR Constitution appropriated 1 Thessalonians 3:10 and twisted it into its “root principle of socialism” in Article 12.
“Under Mao, there were no privately owned businesses of any kind, not even mom and pop shops”
Interesting how baldly you lie and distort things.
Why?
What private sector in China— everything “private” is 51% owned by the chi-coms, the govt. Been there many times, and it is a font of corruption and repression. N. Korea is its client state. The reason you don’t go to the hospital is that china is an oriental horde of “nothings” where human life is worth nothing. It has been that way a long, long time, FRiend.
So you’d like that set up 90 miles from Key West? No problems there at all-— yep.