I think this question is flawed, here's why: The PRC is engaging in a process of developing its productive base, with the goal of reaching a point in which the old social relations of capitalism will be superseded by new socialist relations. China is currently in...
...the lower stage of socialism, which means that it has a communist superstructure on top of a productive base that is still fundamentally capitalist. This was also true for the USSR, the main difference being that the PRC is far more flexible/robust in how it handles the...
...superstructure/base dialectic. The communist superstructure of the USSR was able to develop its base at a historically unprecedented rate, and by 1950 it had reached parity with the bourgeois Western states. The primary failing of the USSR was that it did little to progress...
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