The Liberals had always been redefining words like dictatorship, Liberalism, Capitalism, and Socialism to suit their political agenda. They could say that Communism failed because the Communists did not make Pax Americana dictate their success or when the Communists takeover countries that are mismanaged by corrupt genocidal governments to transform them into economic superpower. The Liberals had been complaining that the USSR are so successful that the invisible hand is recruiting Soviets into key positions of Pax Americana. They declare that Communism failed because the Communists made Pax Americana employ repressive command economy to rig the market competition just to stop Communist takeover.
The Pax Americana dictate that Communist is authoritarian either because they oppose the fake democracy of Pax Americana or because the Communists oppose plutocratic command economy of Capitalism in practice. They claim that China is just as bad because the Liberals dictate that Pax Americana can decide what is the truth about other countries or because they assume that other countries is as bad or worse than the British diaspora and former European colonies.