THE PRIMARY STAGE OF SOCIALISM.

This is excellent - and shows the way that Chinese theoreticians are using the market to build infrastructure as the basis for socialism: how do you go from a relatively backward society to an advanced one? The Chinese learned as a result of the failures of Soviet Socialism with all the planning and organisation problems associated with the 'command economy' bureaucracy. Basically strong political leadership utilises 'state capitalism' to develop capacity - building infrastructure and educating and training people as the primary step towards a socialist transition. This is the only way to control the energy of the market and suppress inevitable class antagonisms: it needs a strong but flexible central leadership They are on course. The maintain the primary stage will be completed by c2050 and class antagonisms should then reduce.


'At first, this form of socialism could not have even qualified as the lower stage of communism, and this determined the relatively long period of time which China would have to spend under a socialist system in order to complete its historical mission and achieve the modernisation which should have already been completed during a capitalist stage, during which it would gradually close the gap in development with the advanced nations of the world. This stage is the so-called ‘primary stage of socialism.’

                             


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