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5 Failure to adopt such an approach can only lead a socialist country to disaster and tragedy, irrespective of how brilliant its achievements may have been in the past or how prestigious its party or leaders may be. As Jiang Zemin put it, in his report to the Chinese party congress last September: "We must be soberly aware that international competition is becoming increasingly acute, that the economic, scientific and technological gap between China and developed countries has brought great pressure to bear on us and that we ourselves still have many difficulties. "Great and rapid changes are taking place in the world, and particularly, the daily advancing science and technology have profoundly changed and will continue to change the current economic and social activities and the appearance of the world. Marxists of any country have to take this seriously." As Mick has outlined, through their summation of their own experience, and their concrete analysis of China's place in the contemporary world, the leadership of the Communist Party of China has come to the assessment that China is in the primary stage of socialism, and that it will remain in this primary stage for a considerable period to come. As Jiang Zemin put it: "Socialism is the primary stage of communism and China is in the primary stage of socialism, that is the stage of underdevelopment. In this large Eastern country, it is a great victory for us to take the socialist road after a period of New Democracy. But, at the time when China entered socialism, it lagged far behind developed countries in terms of the level of development of the productive forces. We are, therefore, destined to go through a rather long primary stage of socialism." This line of march and historical perspective distinguishes the Chinese communists from social democracy, of whatever variety, irrespective of real or apparent similarities in immediate political policies or in current economic forms. As Jiang Zemin explains: "The primary stage of socialism is a historical stage in which we shall gradually put an end to underdevelopment and realise socialist modernisation by and large. It is a stage in which an agricultural country, where people engaged in agriculture take up a very large proportion of the population and mainly rely on manual labour, will

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