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While empirically, I think that China has in general done an excellent job of building socialism, the failure to synthesize practice into theory has had some important real world consequences for China. The Soviet Union in the 1930s and China in the 1960s, despite all their flaws had a strong contingent of foreign supporters in the west because of the strength of their ideology. Structurally, today's China is superior to both those examples. But because China has been somewhat half-hearted in integrating their empirical experimentation into Marxist-Leninist theory, they have failed to become the inspirational Socialist model, they could easily be.
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