I don't think Stalin could save the Soviet Union, because Stalin's death was largely due to the assassination of capitalist elements. His fundamental contradiction was between the capitalist group and the socialist collective. Stalin's death was just a sign, just like in China, Lin Biao's death represented that the rebels were gradually losing to the capitalist roaders, and Mao Zedong's death was a sign that China had entered revisionism.
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Because Stalin did not realize that after the establishment of the socialist country, there would still be two class conflicts. He realized it in his later years, but unfortunately the bourgeois forces within the party were already very strong. What you call "following the footsteps of the Soviet Union" is revisionism, and Deng Xiaoping also followed revisionism. Do you think that the means of production in China are now publicly owned?
Video of the Jasic Movement,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWMu_MIDqNI
Calculated by the total industrial and agricultural output value, the average annual growth rate from 1966 to 1978 was 8.5%, far exceeding the 6.7% growth rate from 1979 to 1981 after the reform and opening up. There are many economic indicators, such as coal, oil, steel, power generation, machine tools, etc. The growth rate of production is even higher than after the reform. The national fiscal revenue has an average annual growth of 6.9%, far exceeding the average annual negative growth rate of 1.7% from 1979 to 1981. If the economy was "on the verge of collapse" during the "Cultural Revolution", then wouldn't the economy from 1979 to 1981 after the reform be even more "on the verge of collapse"! —— Jiang Weigang "Objectively Look at my country's Economic Development during the Cultural Revolution"
China's workers' movement in the past 10 years China's growth rate during the Mao era,Red - heavy industry,Yellow - industry,Blue - light industry,Green - agriculture
These achievements are just in name only. In reality, ordinary people still live very poorly. In the early days of reform and opening up, the growth rate was frighteningly low. Later, it was only by selling off state-owned assets and mass layoffs that it recovered. In addition, the mass layoffs in the 1990s left millions of workers unemployed. These workers could only become lumpen proletariat, become thieves, robbers, or commit suicide. This is an ironclad fact. The reason you think China is good is because you have not experienced it yourself, and can only listen to the current ruling class's boasting.
The reason why the Soviet Union was corrupt was that it became a revisionist country after Stalin's death. China should continue to follow Mao Zedong's line, rather than exchanging the blood and sweat of the proletariat for so-called economic development. Because even if it continues to follow the line of the Mao era, it can still have tremendous development, and it does not rely on the exploitation of the proletariat. You have to know that China developed nuclear bombs, missiles and satellites during the Mao era. In 30 years, it developed from a backward agricultural country into an industrial country on par with the United States.
Now, China is a monopoly capitalist country and is controlled by the bureaucratic capitalist class.
However, its economic development relies on the exploitation of its people, just as it did during the development of liberal capitalism. Moreover, the Communist Party of China can no longer represent the Chinese proletariat. The targets of the CCP's anti-terrorism drills are workers who are owed wages, and the policy is "If you can avoid arresting them, don't arrest them." against the capitalists.
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I see that some people think it is a socialist country, but some think it is revisionist.
Do you think China is a socialist country?
Please tell me your opinion instead of making baseless sarcasm. We are all for an ideal, right?