We alluded to this in an article in our press. It is important to recognize that there can be a variety of forms of political reaction on the social foundations of a workers' state such as in China or the USSR, just as it is possible to have a variety of forms of political reaction in a bourgeois social system. Fortunately, no socialist country has yet succumbed to this, and none may. Bourgeois political reaction in a capitalist country has often gone hand in hand with rapid economic development. The same does not necessarily apply to political reaction in a workers' state.
Capitalism develops spontaneously.
Forms of capitalist rule may change from bourgeois democracy to monarchy to military dictatorship or even theocracy. Under all of them, capitalism continues to exist. Even when it declines most catastrophically, it falls back to a lower level of capitalist production. It is otherwise in a workers' state. Socialism cannot develop spontaneously.