Socialism Building Problems and Solutions: How Was Chinese Socialism Affected by the Evolution of the Dominant Power of the Capitalist World System & Why Did State Become Strong and Centralized in Real Socialism?

Prof. Wang Xuyan

School of Marxism, North China Electric Power University, Beijing.

Abstract: The capitalist world system is the structural premise and external condition of China’s socialist practice. Century-long evolution of the dominant capitalist world system has had a powerful shaping function on the formation of the real socialism practice. On the one hand, the evolution of the capitalist world system is manifested in its geographical expansion, incorporating more and more heterogeneous regions into it, so that socialist countries face the question of maintaining national autonomy in the process of limited integration into the world economy. On the other hand, in the capitalist world system, the developed strong capitalist countries have been upgrading their industries and forming stronger and stronger capital control over the peripheral countries. Therefore, it has become an inevitable requirement for the relatively backward socialist countries to give full play to their institutional advantages to realize economic catch-up and escape from the control of the capitalist world system. Only by placing China’s socialist practice in the dual dimension of the exploration of the socialist system in the backward countries and the maintenance of national autonomy of the peripheral countries in the capitalist world system and the realisation of latecomer catch-up can we more accurately grasp China’s institutional characteristics.

Keywords: capitalist world system; geographical expansion; national autonomy; capital control; latecomer catch-up

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