China

China ascribes to its own form of communism, Maoism (as opposed to the Soviet Marxist model). It also has many characterists that distinguish it from the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and make any sort of economic comparison difficult, to say the least. As much as the socialist economic model remained similar between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, there were key economic and political differences that make any analysis of …

…other city that decides that From each according to his ability, to each according to his need is a fundamentally flawed concept. At which point, which will have been a better change? A Russia that yes, while in poverty has chances to improve, or a military-controlled communist China that is forced to brutally repress its own people because the government saw fit to capitalize only a few areas, and leave the rest in communist squalor.