Leftists in 2016: “Real Communism hasn’t been tried.”
Right-Wing: “HAHAHA! What cope!”
Right Wing in 2026, seeing China: “Actually guys Real Communism hasn’t been tried.”
"I support China’s success. I am just intellectually curious as to how and why of it."
China is successful because it's governed by a Marxist-Leninist party that is robustly committed to the dialectical science of history developed by Marx and Engels.
“The Korean Worker’s Party adheres to the revolutionary principles of Marxism Leninism” - Quote from the Workers Party rulebook of 2021
Additionally, the DPRK’s central cadre training schools educate all Worker’s Party cadre in “the fundamentals of Marxism Leninism” and Kim Jon Un recently had them hang up portraits of Marx and Lenin.
This has even been acknowledged by Western policy institutes like the Rand Corporation who have written long reports on the DPRK’s return to their Communist roots under Kim Jong Un.
I like Hoxha too, but he was wrong about the DPRK abandoning Marxism Leninism.
They leaned into Juche & Korean nationalism when the USSR collapsed and Albania turned into a giant pyramid scheme instead of a real country, but they never abandoned Marxism Leninism. Which is why they’re not cooked like Albania today.
Please read more than whatever you found on Wikipedia.