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Hey people if you have based takes for me to read that’s the moment I wanna read your based takes (I love lemmygrad thank you for being based)
Deng had a greater understanding of Marxist theory than Mao
On god? On god.
Reading Maurice Meisner’s Mao’s China and After kind of broke my brain. Prior to that I had “upheld” Mao as one of the greatest communist thinkers of all time, but his conflicts with Deng and other “traditional” Marxist-Leninists really paint a picture of an over-excited and dare I say… ultraleftist leader, more interested and educated in the metaphysical and cultural spheres than the economic or material ones. Still have great respect for Mao as a brilliant revolutionary leader and unifier, but Deng and his “capitalist roaders” were really just pragmatic Marxist-Leninists, not enemies of the revolution, and often wound up being scapegoated by the idealist, “Maoist” faction for ultraleftist failures.
Whew… That’s brave.
But the man has reciepts. So.
Spicy but gotta agree.
Based
Mao was cool guy but Deng was the nerdy bro we needed all