It’s not really that hard to understand
How intelligent do you have to be to understand Xi Jinping thought?
They have a very acute understanding about the need for further development and how far behind they still are from reaching the level of say, scandinavian countries, etc.
tldr: these things, they take time
Also keep in mind, China's political center of power is not a single entity, but one with multiple factions, some obviously more liberal/capitalist due to their introduction post opening up of China
I heard a comment once that China's commitment to Marxism is like America's commitment to its Founding Fathers. Which is to say that America is a long way from being an agrarian, Jeffersonian republic. But the core of that stuff is still in there, and it's interesting traveling as an American because – while foreigners don't exactly roll out the red carpet – you will encounter some random Ethiopian or someone like that who wants to talk about Alexander Hamilton.
I'm kinda taking this Whiggish view of America as on the journey to "live up to" its ideals, which you'll hear a lot from politicians, but how do you explain the U.S. Civil War? That was 84 years after the formation of the republic and I liken it to a second bourgeois revolution. Well the PRC is approaching its 70th anniversary in 2019.
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really…
What is even Communism? to quote Engels,
What's worth in all these things that the Soviet Union has implemented, if now a Russian worker is in significantly worse state all-round, despite China being leagues behind Russia for the most of industrial age?
Russia is France of Socialism, China is England of Socialism.
by your definition trade unions are communism.
Marx and Engels' definition, as quoted above.
Communism has many meanings, and this is the political meaning. Trade unions are, obviously, most fundamental element of Communist politics.