I have read Anti-Duhring , that's why I specifically brought up Duhring immediately after saying I liked Engels better than Marx.

The problem is, social democracy didn't fail in practice, and Marxism did because, while China is economically successful, the Nordic states are much more successful per capita and have things like basic human rights, AND China's success largely occurred after they switched to a mixed economy, effectively abandoning Marxism.

I have read Wage, Labor and Capital in its entirety, as well as Value, Price, and Profit. Both are better than the manifesto, which I've also read. His critique of Gotha was also interesting. I think Engels was honestly much more interesting than Marx, though Eugen Dühring was more practical (as demonstrated by the success of SocDems and the Nordic model, while "Marxism" never went anywhere in a practical sense.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs... Here's a list of people that apparently have a LOT of needs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_by_net_worth

Oh, I have. What's really fun is talking to Chinese expats who no longer fear government reprisal. I did a lot of interviews as part of a thesis on the concept of a social panopticon and panoptic influence.

Me when I get so mad that someone doesn't like Xi Jinping that I prolapse

Xi Jinping is a popularly supported and democratically elected leader

Lol

Anyway, that's a lot of words to say they lifted urban populations out of poverty by embracing market economics while ignoring the existence of rural populations.