They're not independent. They are the systematic consequences of a naive intelligentsia pressing their ideals that are not grounded in precedent. They are susceptible to manipulative despotic takeover. The pattern keeps repeating. Across geographies large and small.

China has pretty much market economy and is not socialist at all. These economic changes happened years ago. Russia has no communism either.

China is despotic in its treatment of political dissent and human rights, but not in economy.