Bootney Lee Farnsworth
Diamond Member
That is a common misidentification of communism.With communism, there's no real voting. It's a one party state run by an elite. And in China's case, it may be tending towards a one person authoritarian state, and that's scarier than hell. It's not there yet.
Communism is a stateless society (anarchy) where all property and means of production are held in common and the people control the means by democratic vote. Marx was quite clear about that.
Since anarchy is a logical impossibility, they are all the same.
In fact, "democratic socialism" is the LITERAL meaning of Communism.