To be clear, USPS is planned. I think you’re specifically thinking of planning in a similar manner to Mao’s later economy, which isn’t the only form of planning. To be further clear, companies internally plan all the time, like Amazon and Walmart, though without being centrally planned it isn’t what I’m actually getting at.

SOEs and other State firms may operate within a Socialist Market Economy and aren’t quite the same as, say, the Soviet economy, but they are publicly owned and planned. I am aware that the economy post-Deng is very different from late-Mao, and that the economy under Xi is also distinct, don’t patronize me.

If I wanted to be snarky, I could do the same thing you tried to do in this comment and say that referring to “Democratic Socialism” as an actual, distinct form, as well as your confusion regarding the distinction between Socialism and Communism calls into question all of your examples.

I’ll mirror your comment again: I am sure you are very well read, which is commendable and I genuinely think you did well there. Just, like, please also read something that challenges your point of view sometimes.