• morchella
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    2 days ago

    I got an anarchist buddy who hates Deng for the implemention of the market reforms, but loves Xi for his work on stamping out corruption and focus on the ecosystem / fixing a lot of the issues with the market reforms under Deng

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      2 days ago

      What do they think about Xi’s views on Deng Xioping?

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        That it makes sense that Xi would be supportive of Deng while also improving upon the direction he took the CPC. I think my friend just felt that while market reform was needed for China, Deng’s policies did not need to be so laxxed towards corporations. “You didn’t need to let them dump waste wherever they wanted”.

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          I have a cousin with a similiar perspective as a “libertarian socialist.” He doesn’t like China perse but he acknowledges they are better for the world then the US and are therefore preferable. Also that they do a lot of cool scientific progress and that Mao was correct about landlords.

          He also just fucking hates farmers. Not farm workers mind you, but small farm owners.