> but they have proven quite resourceful

when it involves oppressing people...truly generative processes? nah...it gets done when they start utilizing markets but otherwise it's fundamentally doomed

> when they start utilizing markets

I don't think you're familiar with the modern Chinese economy...

Not to mention markets don’t really affect how TMSC or Samsung are organized internally.

that's what I'm saying: chinese prosperity is largely happening when they use markets, but the popular idea that there's some unstoppable, ultra-powerful chimera of totalitarianism and capitalism - I think there's a huge burden of proof that it isn't fundamentally still organizational folly like much of totalitarian states/communism

Even the USSR under Lenin utilized markets in some cases. Communist ideology isn't fundamentally opposed to markets.

The Chinese economy is hardly communist at this stage, it's a mix of socialism and state sponsored capitalism.

Agreed.