interplay that you are missing when you posit that only actions count. And, the motive (or ideology, if you will) of the action is often calculated with reaction in mind. In short, one does not engage in one acts neccesarily with only a mechanistic view towards the results of those actions, but it can happen, when with an ideological impetus and with a proper institutional apparatus, that those actions be calculated to bring about not only economic progress but also social and environmental change.

For all their shortcomings and authoritarianism, I cannot help but not that the Party in the PRC has also overssen vast social change which has moved China from a country where women had their feet stunted on purpose in order to walk in a certain way (and certainly not ever be able to run) to a world where Chinese women are nearing equality with men on par with many if not most of the western oligarchies (and I have no doubt strides will continue to be made in this regard). I note a China whose attitudes towards homosexuality were as backwards as any in the world and see that equality in this regard is equally seeing great strides. I note a China which is far more open to tourism both of its own citizens and of peoples of other countries to the PRC, something we did not see in proper measure in other coutries with "actually-existing-socialism". And, I note that the Party is allocating resources (capital, if you will) to Green energies in a way the banks of the western oligarchies are incapable of doing, especially in Solar.

So, I'm with you on actions, I just interpret the actions a bit differently than you seem to.

I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from them Eugene Debs