>>212026294Mao's CCP-led the socialist industrialization of China had as a base a mostly agrarian-peasant population, all of which lived under the most superstitious ideas.
Contrary to the Russian Revolution, the Chinese had no major industrial cities, thus the proletariat in China was almost non existant.
This infused the chinese revolution with many deviations, many of which resulted in great social calamities.
Once the country was able to develop industrially due to the mobilization of the peasentry to the cities, therein the chinese proletarian was born, shedding all the old crap of ancient China and raising the banner of scientific socialism, science-based industrialism and nation-state buillding
From this particular conditions, men like Deng Xiapoing came to existance. Meaning, without men like Mao, China main export would still be "tradicional" chinese medicine instead of industrial outputs