Genuine question so please don’t hate on me. It seems to me that china now is more of a mixed market than a planned economy. Billionaires and class disparities definitely still exist in China and it seems like american communists almost romanticize china while ignoring obvious flaws in its system, only because they (rightfully) hate america and america hates China. China also supplies all of the world’s exploitative corporations with the vast majority of their goods. While China is probably better than the capitalist economies of the west, I don’t understand why a lot of people seem to hold it in the same regard as the USSR.
I'm pretty much in the same boat. Though I'm not really pro or anti-Dengism. As long as China exists, it's a power which fights against American power which is a net good for the world. I hope their goal of Communism is reached.
I dislike workers being exploited for the "greater good" but I'm not some sort of Messiah who can undo it so