This false equivalence is very infuriating and I have seen plenty of maoists do this malicious comparison:
The current iteration of the CPC undeniable raises living standards for the Chinese people, and in general makes moves to improve lives domestically, but this is all action that could be taken by a social democratic state, as the primary task of the CPC and the state is still to mediate the class struggle betwen the bourgeoise and the proletariat, as a state would function under liberal or fascists orientations.
This guy has to be a privileged westerner that thinks that social democracies are the “middle” man between the rich and the workers and have never struggled in life due to the “state” not willing to improve workers life instead of fatting the rich pigs pockets. Otherwise, they wouldn’t make this nonsense that is so divorced of reality.
Now, that you mention it, this makes a lot of sense.
Recently, in an spanish server that I am currently in, they did word for word what you described. Sadly, they were not banned as fast and it caused damage to the server. This lead to the drop of some active members tired of these shitty ultras scummy fallacies. If anyone has maoists like this, be careful. They are wreckers and love instigating caos in servers.