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Guards want to kill Marxists, so they say "China is socialist" and kill the ones who laugh and point out how it isn't
China is Socialist, the only subsection of Marxists who believe it isn't are Gonzaloists, Trots, and Maoists, generally, all fringe minorities among the broader Marxist current worldwide. The PRC’s economy is dominated by Public Property and Central Planning, the fact that it has a Private Sector does not alone mean it isn’t Socialist, to the contrary it's dependence on the Public Sector as the dominant and driving sector of the economy means it is Socialist.
So you think China can be capitalist and socialist at the same time? Does the state own the means of production, or do private individuals?
I'm always confused at this, to me, Socialism is something that can only exist within Capitalism. Socialism without Capitalism is just Communism, as far as I understand it.