come on, this isn’t 50’s China barely recovering from civil war. They could at least embargo Israel, support a one state solution and arm the resistance, like they did in the Maoist era. Instead, they choose to trade with Israel. It’s super frustrating.
not as hilarious as this one: https://x.com/ChnAmbXIAO/status/1928093403612319932
Zhang had that knowledge and experience (sadly passed away in 2005, after serving 22 years in a Dengist dungeon). If this guy is reaching a similar conclusion to an experienced cadre like Zhang, then perhaps, he’s doing a good analysis on this specific topic.
people in this community say only westerners question China’s position as socialist, when in actually, people from the East also question how socialist is China. There are multiple Asian communist parties backing this opinion and even former CPC cadres, like Zhang.
Zhang Chunqiao wasn’t a western anglo and said this:
“Although the Cultural Revolution launched and led by Chairman Mao failed, its spirit and principles will last forever. If the ruling Communist Party does not seriously solve the problem of degeneration and deterioration, becomes a privileged class, separates itself from the broad masses of the people, and is high above them, acting like a master, then sooner or later the people will follow Chairman Mao’s teachings and rise up again to revolutionize and overthrow the bourgeoisie in the Party.”
100 more years of support to Israel, because the development of productive forces says so. Let’s hope there will be any Palestinian remaining by then until China finally decides to significantly arm the resistance and boycott Israel.
Revisionism is the biggest threat to socialism worldwide, and the parties that don’t recognize this threat are beyond clueless and forever condemned to rot in irrelevance.
Repudiating communism is the logical next-step after repudiating Stalin/Mao. Everybody that did it became a social-democrat sooner or later.
Not the first, neither the last time it will happen. The Peruvian Marxist-Leninist thinker José Carlos Mariategui used to refer positively about Incan times, where, in his opinion, the natives would practice primitive communism, with a somewhat collective ownership of the means of production until the arrival of the Spanish, who would conquer the natives and implement feudalism in Peru.
edit: at least, its that what i remember from reading his 7 Essays.
fairs, it should be better if someone posted one of the their crazy takes.
they are a Duginist party nowadays, kinda like the ACP.
Juche is an separated ideology from Marxism-Leninism. It was created by Kim Il-sung to serve early on as an application of ML to the Korean reality, but later it became its own ideology. In the 1972 Constitution, it replaced ML as the country’s official ideology (with all mentions to Marxism-Leninism in the Constitution being removed in 1992). I’m not well-versed enough to talk about the philosophy of Juche, so you gotta read their texts and make your own conclusions.
addition: Caution is needed when criticizing Korea to avoid making chorus with reactionaries and trotskytes that say smiling is banned there. It’s a victim of imperialism in the end, with half of the country being under military occupation, but some things, like the removal of ML from the Constitution need to be criticized.
i agree
Do you think that the Filipino police only used those guns to combat actual ISIS terrorists? They probably killed communists or worse, ordinary people with those weapons later. Even if China isn’t the main supplier of the Philippines, they are still involved.
And about Nepal, Nepalese Maoists controlled 80% of the country before capitulating, and managed to abolish a literal feudal monarchy. How many parties post-1991 did anything close to that? Its true there’s a lot of opportunism in Nepal nowadays, but the parties are slowly starting to merge into the RCPN.
internationalism is supposed to be a main characteristic of socialists. Where was post-Mao China internationalist?
my mistake, apparently India doesn’t receive Chinese support. But Phillipines and Nepal certainly did.
Equating China to the US is wrong, but their development since Mao’s death and the takeover of the party by the capitalist roaders hasn’t been socialist in any sort.
Also, Maoists don’t see China as potential allies because China calls them ultras and routinely sells guns to the reactionary Filipino and Indian (and the former Nepali government) governments to shoot them.
edit: India doesn’t receive Chinese support
edit 2: nevermind
quotation from the first chapter:
A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
It goes without saying that a nation, like every historical phenomenon, is subject to the law of change, has its history, its beginning and end.
It must be emphasized that none of the above characteristics taken separately is sufficient to define a nation. More than that, it is sufficient for a single one of these characteristics to be lacking and the nation ceases to be a nation.
It is possible to conceive of people possessing a common “national character” who, nevertheless, cannot be said to constitute a single nation if they are economically disunited, inhabit different territories, speak different languages, and so forth. Such, for instance, are the Russian, Galician, American, Georgian and Caucasian Highland Jews, who, in our opinion, do not constitute a single nation.
It is possible to conceive of people with a common territory and economic life who nevertheless would not constitute a single nation because they have no common language and no common “national character.” Such, for instance, are the Germans and Letts in the Baltic region.
Finally, the Norwegians and the Danes speak one language, but they do not constitute a single nation owing to the absence of the other characteristics.
It is only when all these characteristics are present together that we have a nation.
there’s also his definition of Zionism:
Zionism – A reactionary nationalist trend of the Jewish bourgeoisie, which had followers along the intellectuals and the more backward sections of the Jewish workers. The Zionists endeavoured to isolate the Jewish working-class masses from the general struggle of the proletariat.
If this citation applies to this context,why didn’t Mao’s China trade with Israel?
And on Nixon’s visit, he conceded recognition to the PRC and Mao accepted, following Lenin’s principle of a somewhat peaceful coexistence with imperialists, to allow the development of struggle inside imperialist countries. How many struggles is Mr. Xi helping by legitimizing the colonization of Palestinian land? Also, how many popular struggles have the Dengists helped since taking power? I mean actual struggles, not arming the reactionary armies of Myanmar, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan to murder separatists enforcing their right to self-determination.