Is communism the reason why China has a bad economy?

This question is moot. China forklifted 600m people out of poverty in a blink of 40 years, from the baseline of a command economy. A badly-managed economy, a bad economy, inept administrators will not achieve that. read more

Contrary to popular belief, however, the reason why Communism fails in Communist countries is because those countries are still going off of the Communism from the 60's, 50's, and before, instead of being modern-day. read more

The Communist Manifesto advocates the replacement of all governments by Communist governments. This has almost always been put into effect internally: the Russian monarchy was overthrown, as were the Republic of China and the Cuban democracy. But the threat is not merely internal. read more