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https://www.ie.edu/insights/articles/is-china-a-communist-country/
Though you'll probably deny this article as valid because it harms your perception of China being a Communist state, and usually people do not like they're conspiracy theories to be challenged by actual fact.
Additionally, besides the argument of whether it's communist or not, it is not a good country and if that's what communism looks like, then I actually want no part in communism. They have no ability for free speech or even protests. Say what you want about it's economics, but that is not how humans should be forced to live.
That's an opinion piece by a non-Marxist that makes the incredibly basic error of confusing the developing stage of socialism with the characteristics of the advanced stage of communism. You're incredibly arrogant for someone who clearly has done very little reading of Marx.
I've written frequently on the PRC's model of socialism, such as this summary from a few days ago, including resources for further reading. You can even shortcut to my Read Theory, Darn it! introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list, though it's getting some revisions.
The people of China have freedom of speech, capitalists and businesses do not. The people of China do not protest often, because the system works:
It's time for you to turn off Fox News.
I will admit, I have not read the source theory, but I engage often with communists (most of my immidiate sphere are communists) enough to get a lot of it (I am actually an Anarcho-Communist, just to note). But my problem, as always, with a lot of you people who are obsessed with trying to use China as an example of communism, is the fact that theory and practice are two very different things. Very few places if any even follow your own theory from what I have gleaned from other comrades.
It is also really easy to pressure people to give the answers you want to for those kind of questions if you are an authoritarian state. Also from the cyber security sector, most citizens of China desperately try and get their hands on vpns or use tor in order to be able to actually access the external world, which is never a good sign and does not scream "We're free!" to me.
Also fox news is abhorant, as is all American backed official news outlets. I use lemmy, did you really think that I watch state provided news? Or was that an ad hominim because people here dislike Fox specifically?
Trust me, we knew.