[lostconfused]

There's a pretty simple definition of communism and it's "workers own the means of production".

That's the one defining trait of communism according to any communist.

[eropple]

Sure, but that also has never been practically the case in any communist nation of which I am aware. Getting into No True Communist discussions isn't meaningfully productive, but there might at least be something to be made from looking at other self-declared communist states and teasing out the differences.

[lostconfused]

And I don't want to start that discussion. I just think it's easier to call China a totalitarian capitalist state, without torturing other labels to make them fit. It's not unthinkable for a state to miss represent it self when it comes to names or labels.