Also he is a libertarian
In the Communist manifesto among other places.
The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.
The quotation I gave you was, first of all, not one of the numbered demands like a graduated income tax schedule but in fact one of the “general principles” which are “as correct today as ever”, and the Communist Party of China seems to be well aware of the fact that the practical application in China depends on the historical conditions existing in China, they’ve formulated their entire approach to implementing socialism on that very idea. That’s why they call their economic system Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. Calling their system just “capitalist” kind of ignores some fundamental questions about how an economy operates. Who is making the decisions in the economy, for the benefit of whom and at the expense of whom?
