>>2619217China is a very different society in a very different position. There was already a powerful and concentrated proletariat in Russia and that made it possible for it to create a class situation where the peasantry's petty bourgeois impulses weren't entertained as much. The peasantry itself also had a very long-standing communal culture that was only broken up relatively recently and that process was still going on, if in the last phases, in fact it was one of the reasons Bolsheviks took power. Chinese peasants had thousands of years of private property so that's not as easy to snuff out in a short amount of time. Soviet Union itself went along with different solutions in countries like Poland because that's the point of local parties, they adapt to local conditions.
That's not to mention the very different external situation. China managed to infiltrate the capitalist camp, "market socialism" could only provide the growth it did because of the relationship between China and imperialist powers. Very few socialist countries have that opportunity, Cuba and North Korea would have probably preferred to have the kind of relationship it has with the west but they are not given the choice. Neither was Soviet Union given a choice at any point in time and even with all the revisionist wrecking and capitalist destruction countries like Russia or Belarus still have a higher GDP PPP per capita (won't for long of course, but people should keep Chinese achievement in context).
The Soviet model is generally far better and far more applicable to most countries but China had an opportunity to industrialize in a different way and crush western production while at it, that's awesome and we should all be glad they did it.
>>2614940No, it was a unique situation. China is a very unique country in many regards. Also people tend to overstate how important the market is in China or was during NEP, the party still always has the final say and does anything it deems fit like crashing the housing market on purpose and no doubt pissing tens to a hundred million antiproletarian elements that bought several apartments for the sole purpose of storing wealth.