: From: Julio Huato --- Shane Mage wrote:
> It is the opposite--a movement from a backward bureaucratic > state capitalism, which reflected the semi-feudal and dependent colonial > structures inherited by the CCP, towards a modern, globalized capitalism > in which the proletariat is growing by leaps and bounds, in numbers, > strength, and confidence. It is then, within the capitalist mode of > production, an enormous step *toward* [the possibility of] socialism. I basically agree. The path is not a straight line. ^^^ CB: I basically agree too. Whenever we have these left "who lost China ?" debates, I think, on Marxist fundamentals, there was not enough capitalism in pre-revolutionary China to "make" socialism right away. China didn't take the name "Socialist", but "Peoples's" Republic , I thought for this reason. There was a slogan regarding " the road to socialism by passing capitalism". Experience taught that it was not possible to bypass capitalism in getting to socialism, in the world as it is, with imperialism still dominate, and willing to commit super-genocides to destroy countries trying to avoid capitalism, etc.
