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Ok what are they democratic socialists?
Please.
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Democratic socialism typically describes more open societies. I wouldn't call China 'democratic', they are far too authoritarian. China, though it aspires to be socialist, is not yet wealthy enough to support the types of safety nets and public institutions that characterize current, successful democratic-socialist states.
China has an entirely different governmental structure than Western states. For example, it has no parliament. It styles itself a "proletariat democracy" in contrast to Western "bourgeoisie democracy". It uses popular sovereignty as an excuse for its lapses in universal franchise, claiming that elections and parties will naturally be won by people with money, and the bourgeoisie will always be the people with money, and will thus always dominate in such a system.
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In China Marxism is modified as the political ideology by the Communist Party of China to govern the party and the nation.
The important concepts of Marxism, such as the ruling class and the ruling ideas, the material labor and the mental labor, superstructure and economic base, and the ideological state apparatuses, are used by the paramount leaders of People's Republic of China to create guiding socio-political theories which make up the Chinese Marxist Philosophy.
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Again, there have been many departures from Marxist rhetoric since the 1980's. China still lovingly clings to idealized Marxist concepts, but in practice the modern chinese state is a syncretic system, a mixed market with heavy government intervention that strives for socialism. Many of the Marxist elements that the CCP embraces are more cultural than economic, and are used to justify things like what I mentioned above, such as not having a parliament or constitution.