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Marxist regimes tend be the most murderous and most sensitive. The CCP literally murdered tens of millions of people and they're banning clothes "that hurt China's feelings" (actual quote)
Nah, those regimes have as much to do with Marx as margarine is butter. The vanguard party idea tankies have would have Marx rotating in his grave fast enough to power the globe. Marxism-Leninism originates mostly from Stalin and has nothing to do with Marx, other than aesthetics. It's basically fascism with socialist aesthetics.
China is not Marxist. It is capitalist under communist disguise.
I really like the term "state capitalist".
"Hurting the feelings of the Chinese people" has been one of the CCP's favorite political catchphrases since 1959. It even has its own wikipedia article.
It's often followed with China's final warning.