Socialism, as much as I want it to be, is not a switch to be turned on. It is a world historical process which brings with it contradictions to be addressed.
See the thing is, for a while, they didn't need to have some sort of gradual transition to socialism because they actually achieved it under Mao. Under Deng and his successors they moved away from it. So I just won't buy the arguments that it's a gradual process because Russia didn't need to go through all that shit when it had its revolution, and China already did achieve socialism before Deng reversed history.
See the thing is, for a while, they didn't need to have some sort of gradual transition to socialism because they actually achieved it under Mao. Under Deng and his successors they moved away from it. So I just won't buy the arguments that it's a gradual process because Russia didn't need to go through all that shit when it had its revolution, and China already did achieve socialism before Deng reversed history.