Chinese Marxist genius creativity in China

Marx and Engels don’t seem to envision the end of the market in the socialist , first stage of Communism, and they’re talking about an advanced capitalist countries . ( see below )China didn’t have capitalism. They tried to find a road to socialism bypassing capitalism, but it didn’t work. It needed to develop the forces of production, and it did pulling 100’s of millions out of poverty which only capitalist relations of production could do. The capitalists were under a level of control by which there was no business cycle , no anarcy of production ; because Marxists understand capitalism better than capitalists ! Also, they learned from the Soviet Union that the forces of war defense had to be developed because imperialism would invade and annihilate. Advanced Military forces could only be had by capitalist development of the forces of production. Deng had Marxist genius creativity . “ Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production. These measures will, of course, be different in different countries. Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable. 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. 5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. 6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. 7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. 8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. 9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country. 10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c.” Communist Manifesto (Chapter 2) marxists.org favicon.ico