I don't pretend to know much about how China functions, but I know enough to know its certainly more capitalistic than Mao would have liked. But this is why I'm not a fan of communism—the most developed countries that embraced it all became horrible dictatorships that betray the most central tenets of communism. In other words, it doesn't seem to work all that well, at least not on a grand scale. For it to work as intended, I think it requires a fairly small community—like a commune. I'm not a fan of capitalism either though; my preference is something in the middle, more like Democratic socialism.

But the point is, some Far Lefties do seem to like China for whatever reason. Again, I think they mainly just like that they're opposing capitalism and view the CCP through some very rose-colored classes.