of all the marxist parties that succeeded, the CPC is the one that best understood what marx wrote and put that understanding into practice
to be fair to the other ones though, this is partially because they had access to texts the soviets didn't early on (the german ideology was written in ~1845 but only published in 1932, for instance), in fact i have no idea how lenin actually managed to understand the historical necessity of the NEP... that's a hell of a reverse engineering of marx's works, dude was a genius
anyway, they're doing what they have to do under a materialist (as opposed to idealist) understanding of history: you can't replace capitalism, you need to overcome it, and you can't overcome it unless you make it obsolete, and to make it obsolete - meaning, to reach the next stage of development - you can't just skip the capitalist phase
Also they have the lessons of the failures of the Soviet Union to learn from. That leads to a lot of unpleasantness in terms of cozying up to capital and even the US in a lot of foreign policy. That sucks ass. But it's a practical decision based on the failures of the USSR always taking on more foreign engagements than it was prepared to handle economically.
of all the marxist parties that succeeded, the CPC is the one that best understood what marx wrote and put that understanding into practice
to be fair to the other ones though, this is partially because they had access to texts the soviets didn't early on (the german ideology was written in ~1845 but only published in 1932, for instance), in fact i have no idea how lenin actually managed to understand the historical necessity of the NEP... that's a hell of a reverse engineering of marx's works, dude was a genius
anyway, they're doing what they have to do under a materialist (as opposed to idealist) understanding of history: you can't replace capitalism, you need to overcome it, and you can't overcome it unless you make it obsolete, and to make it obsolete - meaning, to reach the next stage of development - you can't just skip the capitalist phase
Also they have the lessons of the failures of the Soviet Union to learn from. That leads to a lot of unpleasantness in terms of cozying up to capital and even the US in a lot of foreign policy. That sucks ass. But it's a practical decision based on the failures of the USSR always taking on more foreign engagements than it was prepared to handle economically.