China

1917 and even 1936 were premature. What were the workers expected to take over? In the former, a mostly agrarian illiterate society. In the former a barely industrialized collection of sweatshops. Participatory democratic economic planning wasn't even possible before the Internet and decision optimization software.

*later a barely industrialized…

The thing is that for socialists all of these things are means to an end, not an end in themselves (insert Engels quote about concentration of capital in the hands of the state => the national capitalist or whatever he wrote). China also has enormous wealth inequality, billionaires in charge of politics, workers who are exploited by foreign corporations and work for low wages under terrible work conditions. Everything you listed; developing productive forces, five year plans, state ownership, etc. could be said about early South Korea as well, but nobody would claim there was anything "socialist" about South Korea. None of the pro-China posters here have convinced me that China is really any different from South Korea in 70's and 80's or some other reactionary dictatorship with a decent amount of state ownership.

Full automation is not a prerequisite for socialism or socialist oriented politics.

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this, the chinese gov is just going to create more jihadis with the camps
the deprogramming at schools is very welcome however

any leftist who supports China is a dumbfuck

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Which ethnic groups did he mention?

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Uyghurs and Tibetans