In all probability, the proletarian revolution will transform existing society gradually and will be able to abolish private property only when the means of production are available in sufficient quantity. …That was the impetus behind Lenin’s New Economic Policy, the systems of fascism and national socialism, and Teng Hsiao-P’ing’s Special Economic Zones, ad nauseam. Khrushchev even talked about “many different paths to socialism”; take note that the goal was never deviated from.