ABSTRACT
Another academic debate concerns whether the victories of the Russian October Revolution and of the Chinese Revolution confirm Marx and Engels’s idea on “leaping over” the Caudine Forks of the capitalist system. This chapter investigates and analyzes this issue. However, some Chinese scholars believe that the victories of the Russian October Socialist Revolution and of the Chinese Revolution vitally corroborate the “leaping over” of the Caudine Forks of capitalism. In addition, they believe such victories confirm Marx and Engels’s idea that the Russian rural commune can “leap over” the Caudine Forks of the capitalist system. In The Development of Capitalism in Russia, Lenin says:It should be added that our literature frequently contains too stereotyped an understanding of the theoretical proposition that capitalism requires the free, landless worker. In the process of social formations, due to the convergence of varied domestic and foreign influences, a bi-mode society may emerge, featuring both superior and inferior characteristics.
