I see many different interpretations about this.

But what did Deng Xiaoping in fact mean with this quote?

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    Thats what socialist countries do by definition. Every socialist country is a socialist project that is under construction. Socialism is not created by fiat or by treaty. Socialist construction is the longest and most difficult phase of revolution. It is the phase that no western marxist, and few socialists at all, have even reached. This is why Deng says China must cross the brook by feeling for the stones, socialism is constructed under a fog of difficulty and ignorance that is only barely illuminated by the Marxism, our candle in the dark. No dogma that developed during a revolutionary war and its aftermath is going to be able to carry the revolution forward. This is why socialist construction is so difficult and why lambasting those (like the Deng and the Chinese people) who have been on the ground trying to accomplish unprecedented achievements as revisionists oftentimes just feeds dogma and enforces stagnation.