Too true. Of course, the reason China has outlasted most of the world's other Communist Parties is that they are quite well aware of the fact that they're not working toward any kind of egalitarianism, whereas previous Communist regimes pretended they were. The so-called "Communist" Party of China rarely ever gave more than lip-service (albeit fanatical lip-service) to Marxist theory, which is really the only reason they've lasted longer than the USSR did.
They used the terminology of Communism because they learned from Zhongshan's Republic that they had to make it sound modern and hip, but it was really more of a reversion to China's ancient Imperial system (and when I say "ancient," the Mao era more closely resembled the Qin or Shang Dynasties than anything else) with new labels ("communes" instead of "shared households," "the Party" instead of "the Mandarinate," and "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" instead of "Mandate of Heaven").
There's a joke here in Beijing.
"What does 'China'stand for? Communist Headquarters In Name Alone."
The fact that Taiwan has actually achieved something that's pretty close to a free society and in doing so has actually achieved a greater living standard than any part of the Mainland except the coast, and they did it all by outright rejecting Marx and more-or-less embracing Western ideals (with a few alterations made for their own cultural legacy of course), absolutely infuriates the neocomms.