December 10, 2022 By Stephen Gowans It has been a tough week for the star-gazers who run a platform called Friends of Socialist China, a motley collection of Sinophiles and pretend-Marxists who sup…
Yeah but the circle of people with such view on history isn’t exactly very diverse. Maoists, trots (depending on which period of USSR we ask), maybe nazbols.
I guess it could also be russian nationalists, from that weird type that think both USSR and Russian Empire were good.
Yes, Deng reforms could be viewed very ambiguously. Imagine if after Deng came people like Gorbachev and Yeltsin instead of Jiang, Hu and Xi, we would now be speaking the exact points that maoists are, but it would be true.
As i chose to view it, is that Deng did a huge leap of trust in the future generations, and they, especially Xi, did not betrayed that trust.
i was just a little shocked how confidently they described china as capitalist, while the same writer has published content praising the USSR?
I’ve met several people who praise USSR and criticise China
Maoists.
Idk, haven’t specified
Yeah but the circle of people with such view on history isn’t exactly very diverse. Maoists, trots (depending on which period of USSR we ask), maybe nazbols.
I guess it could also be russian nationalists, from that weird type that think both USSR and Russian Empire were good.
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Yes, Deng reforms could be viewed very ambiguously. Imagine if after Deng came people like Gorbachev and Yeltsin instead of Jiang, Hu and Xi, we would now be speaking the exact points that maoists are, but it would be true.
As i chose to view it, is that Deng did a huge leap of trust in the future generations, and they, especially Xi, did not betrayed that trust.
Deng did actually purge some politicians who wanted to go the full Gorbachev route, didn’t he?
Yeah, also ultraleftists too iirc.
Or that we “love” anyone. We’re just capable of putting things in historical context and understanding the pros and cons of their actions