Answer:
It's communist because a dictator came in and took over China.
The answerer to the above question has no intelligence/knowledge of history.
A. Read the damn Communist manifesto. Dictatorships have nothing to do with communism.
B. Mao Zedong was the head of a popular movement, in competition with the brutal, uncaring Nationalist movement under Chiang Kai-Shek.
C. Their economy is actually one of the most cutthroat capitalist economies in the world.