observing humanity from beyond
I think it boils down to cognitive dissonance, these people can grasp that the state is a tool used by the ruling class to oppress the working class, that their material conditions have been in decay, that the empire is reaching its end.
But this directly contradicts their internalized american excepcionalism, they are caught in this struggle and they simply do not have the tools+energy to resolve it and continue developing their views. Add in internalized racism+anti-communism and you end up with these freaks.
And that is a problem to whom? Every single state is authoritarian, the question is whose interests are they protecting.
China is clearly a dictatorship of the proletariat and they use authority to protect the interests of the proletariat. Yes, sometimes their policy is wrong and does harm but ultimately they work to improve their policies, governing is a learning experience after all.
This is not “one or the another” situation, communism is the next qualitative stage in development of society. It solves the primary contradiction that we experience in capitalism, that is socialized production being privatized by individuals, aka capitalists.
You can’t just declare communism by signing a document, because it is a process of development in which small quantitative changes in production (socialism) lead to a qualitative change (communism), thus to achieve the communism stage you have to achieve a certain level of development.
This is why China is considered a communist country by marxists-leninist even though qualitatively it is a capitalist country. They are actively working to develop communism, this can be clearly seen throughout their rhetoric (i.e. “The Governance of China”) and their material results.
At the same time they try to reduce every enemy as a clone of hitler while whitewashing actual nazi rhetoric.
GDF video about “sure, hamas = nazis” is really good. The entire anti-hamas campaign is built on nazi propaganda tactics.