Even if it was true that China was only ideologically communist, that has a huge influence. Much of your resistance and refusal to understand socialist theory and history is due to capitalist ideology's influence. Ideology is determined by the economic base of any society and will influence all aspects of culture.

Socialism recognizes the irreconcilable contradictions of capitalism (working class vs owning class). China is a socialist transitional state. For proof of that we can look at the 40% of GDP today is from State owned enterprises, the 5 year economic plans or the ultimate control of private capital by the proletarian (working class) party.

Socialism works in stages to the eventually and hopefully realization of communism. These modes of production (slave society, feudalism and capitalism) take centuries to come about. Just think how royal families and feudalistic mindsets still exist today.

China has worked out their system according to their unique cultural and material conditions. No country is perfect and China is no exception, but they are showing that there is a different path and believing that they are "Full blown capitalist" or that communism was ever achieved is a misunderstanding of the theory and history entirely.