Well that is the thing. The largest communist nations were in a sense the most backwards like Russia and China.
In a sense Marx has failed thus far because none of the countries which he expected to become communist eventually have done it thus far.
Russia (Soviet Union) had some success basically jumping from feudal to communist. A success not without its issues but it also had some successes. The electrification and industrialization drives mostly worked. Agriculture was a failure. So basically China emulated that. The problem, I think, was when China expelled Soviet advisors and tried to do the Great Leap Forward. Even the Soviets basically imported a lot of know-how to be able to do the Stalin 5-year plans. They did not attempt to do the industrialization on a vacuum.
In a sense Marx has failed thus far because none of the countries which he expected to become communist eventually have done it thus far.
Russia (Soviet Union) had some success basically jumping from feudal to communist. A success not without its issues but it also had some successes. The electrification and industrialization drives mostly worked. Agriculture was a failure. So basically China emulated that. The problem, I think, was when China expelled Soviet advisors and tried to do the Great Leap Forward. Even the Soviets basically imported a lot of know-how to be able to do the Stalin 5-year plans. They did not attempt to do the industrialization on a vacuum.