Indeed, translations change a lot, and phrasing also changed over time within China, but you are right to call me out on being imprecise. In german we usually d

Indeed, translations change a lot, and phrasing also changed over time within China, but you are right to call me out on being imprecise. In german we usually differentiate between socialistic and socialist with the former being the movement working on becoming the second. Still, Marx was already talking about the difference between "lower" communism, socialist mode of production, and "final" communism, the communist society. Mao said China was in the initial stage of socialism, but didn't really explain what that meant. This was then built on by his successors.[1] This article goes into a bit of detail on the current plan, which is now to reach the final state of socialism by 2050.[2] This has been a key aspect of internal CPC ideology since the 70s, so I'm not sure what you consider "venting". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_stage_of_socialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_stage_of_socialism [2] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-9833-3_4 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-9833-3_...