The change also left rural land ownership in a morass.
Socialist democracy, or people’s democracy, means that all of the people, enjoying various forms of ownership and usufruct of the means of production, have the overriding right to administer the state.
quoting Hua Guofeng
The report was primarily a product of internal realpolitik, blocking any real critical reflection on Mao’s record or that of the party under him.
He declared, first, that democracy was imperative for the ongoing thought-liberation campaign to steer China’s course towards modernization, and second, that ecumenical unity should take priority over efforts to clarify past mistakes.
Deng Xiaoping in 1978
By that measure, the Soviet Union was still growing up to 1986, when Gorbachev launched his perestroika, and would not have been considered in economic crisis either
