u/maenlsm - originally from r/GenZhou
The communist society in Marx's prediction would be a classless rich society. In Mao's idea, he would rather have a poor classless society than any classed society (in reality though Mao didn't live like the poorest peasant). Pol Pot took it to a new level -- he basically made every Cambodian a poor peasant and abolished money outright (Pol Pot actually lived in jungles even after the CPK had taken the state power for a while). On the other hand, Deng once said bluntly: "poverty is not socialism." Chinese leaders since Deng follow this doctrine: a certain level of inequality is acceptable in order to develop productive forces.

Now you choose which path you want to follow.