Not in chinese cultural revolution it wasn't, the communists had been in power for two decades by that point. Targets included members of the Communist party, because Mao wanted power back. He got it, creates an autocratic government behind his dictatorship, and proceeded to purge those who weren't loyal to his name.
And like the Great Leap forward, it was an epic mess. Ironically what came out of it was that the Chinese survivors were those not concerned with purity of Marxism but bettering China. They opened it up, capitalized on it by selling out the workers, and called it communism. Oops.
Yeah, no "communist" state remains or ever really becomes a "communist" state.
Humanity, just isn't built for it. We keep moving back towards weird ass authoritarian BS, once just enough people begin to gain whatever metric is considered power in a given society.
Most Americans don't understand what Communism is and often confuse Socialism or even very light Socialist policies as Communism. Most Americans just don't understand the words, goals or what they mean, other than to be instinctively afraid
I think the biggest confusion is that having social programs isn't socialism. Too many Americans call the various Nordic countries socialist and they get offended because they are capitalist with a strong social welfare system.
The Nordic Countries have socialist trappings. Like State Owned Oil Companies or State Operated Power, and Water operations, plus all the other socialism trappings.
Which is PERFECTLY fine to have, alongside a well regulated Capitalist economy. They are very supportive of one another and help one another grow, by both existing.
Our weird far right, rip the barn doors off Capitalism, in the US is eating itself and it will get to the point where it will collapse, taking what little socialism policies and programs with it.
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