This. Read Ha-Joon’s books, probably will help you.

Yeah lmao, I don’t know how I got the two mixed up.

The guy literally did the same in 2019. Look it up, it’s even in Wikipedia. ‘Poisoning’, not even his followers believed it. They’re always using these pawns to blame Putin and probably enact more sanctions, guess it has to do with the BRI, Belarus, and the Nord Stream 2.

The first russian elections after the fall of the USSR are enlightening (especially since the US had to help Yeltsin to win, and it is widely agreed that he used false votes, as well as, well, buying every piece of media he could and making propaganda as much as he could with the help of the US, even so the result between him and the CCP was near). Check Yugoslavia’s dismemberment too, maybe. The Asian Crisis of 1997. Argentina’s 2001 crisis. Ha-Joon’s book on ‘kicking away the ladder’ for developing countries and on economy make a case for the fact that modern countries used not liberalism but protectionism for their development and then impeded third-world countries to take the same route (with cases such as South Korea, Japan, Singapore, and ofc Communist China actually being able to use a similar route through military dictatorships and in China, the CCP), so you might wanna check that out. As for Cuba, investigate the embargo and why they wouldn’t accept “democratisation”, Fidel talks about what actual democracy is in Cuba here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmWhTKFHET0 and why they do not want the US “democracy”. These are all just pointers haha, but hope the help. You might be referring to this survey: https://thecommunists.org/2019/07/26/news/workers-eastern-europe-former-ussr-prefer-socialism/ tho I remember there was a picture which summed it up, you can always go to the source and make the graph yourself in Word. Good luck!

Also: https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/mao-zedong-thought-must-be-correctly-understood-as-an-integral-whole/

Just read this from Deng: https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/to-uphold-socialism-we-must-eliminate-poverty/ “In the past we stayed in a rut, engaging in construction behind closed doors, and many years of hard work did not produce the desired results. It is true that our economy was gradually expanding and that we succeeded in developing certain things, such as the atomic bomb, the hydrogen bomb and even intercontinental ballistic missiles. But on the whole, the economy grew slowly or remained at a standstill for long periods, and our people were still living in poverty. During the “cultural revolution” the Gang of Four raised the absurd slogan, “Better to be poor under socialism and communism than to be rich under capitalism.” It may sound reasonable to reject the goal of becoming rich under capitalism. But how can we advocate being poor under socialism and communism? It was that kind of thinking that brought China to a standstill. That situation forced us to re-examine the question.” “In the course of building socialism and trying to modernize we have encountered some interference from the “Left”. Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of our Party, we have been concentrating on combating “Left” mistakes, because those are the ones we have made in the past. But there has also been interference from the Right. By that we mean the call for wholesale Westernization, which would lead not to socialism but to capitalism. We have already coped with the recent widespread ideological trend in favour of bourgeois liberalization and made some changes of personnel.” I think it is clear who those “maoists” are. They don’t understand that material conditions change and that methods of revolution will change accordingly, as Marxism is not a dogma but a science to action, it constantly evolves and updates itself.

They become too idealistic and can’t see reality, sadly.

Many anarchists, sadly, did the same with the obviously CIA-backed, full of literal UK flags, HK protests :/. Yes, there are always a miniscule number of actual anarchists, but they never control the whole movement (neither in Belarus, nor in HK), so in the grand scheme of things that doesn’t matter, as reality will turn out just like Ukraine, Bolivia, and so many ‘revolts’ that followed exactly the same pattern.

Also, woah, the description is amazing. “Reconocido como el imperio de esta época, es la nación más poderosa de todos los tiempos. Surgida como nación independiente en 1776, ha alcanzado un notable desarrollo económico, científico y militar. Se ha caracterizado históricamente por despojar por la fuerza a otras naciones y países de territorios y recursos naturales para ponerlos al servicio de sus empresas y monopolios. Con apenas el 4% de la población mundial, consume el 25% de la energía que se produce en el planeta[1], y a pesar de su riqueza más de un tercio de su población no tiene asegurada la atención médica.” Laying the facts! “It’s characterised by taking away land and resources by force from other countries, putting them to their own companies’ service. It only has 4% of the world’s population, but uses 25% of its energy. More than a third of its population has practically no medical coverage”.

Woah, I didn’t know Cuba had its own “wikipedia”, I’m so glad it does! Just days ago I was talking with my friend about how Argentina should have implemented its own Wikipedia (just as the Chinese had done) in order to get away from USA propaganda. Internet ownership is important, the way it is now, people are starting to speak broken spanish, translations are doing literally and horribly, and English is started to reign, and this is no good. China has been able to stop this in some way, but look at Japan and japanese, for example!

No, it doesn’t make sense because America is a continent. And when you call people from the USA ‘Americans’ it’s really confusing because everyone in the American country is American. In fact, this is a form of USA-centrism. In Spanish, we do not call them ‘Americans’ but rather ‘estadounidenses’ or ‘yanquis’ or ‘gringos’ (those two are despective), or even ‘norteamericanos’ (which also actually includes Canada).

Here’s some more of Comrade Deng: "In the past we stayed in a rut, engaging in construction behind closed doors, and many years of hard work did not produce the desired results. It is true that our economy was gradually expanding and that we succeeded in developing certain things, such as the atomic bomb, the hydrogen bomb and even intercontinental ballistic missiles. But on the whole, the economy grew slowly or remained at a standstill for long periods, and our people were still living in poverty. During the “cultural revolution” the Gang of Four raised the absurd slogan, “Better to be poor under socialism and communism than to be rich under capitalism.” It may sound reasonable to reject the goal of becoming rich under capitalism. But how can we advocate being poor under socialism and communism? It was that kind of thinking that brought China to a standstill. That situation forced us to re-examine the question.

So, to build socialism it is necessary to develop the productive forces. Poverty is not socialism. To uphold socialism, a socialism that is to be superior to capitalism, it is imperative first and foremost to eliminate poverty. True, we are building socialism, but that doesn’t mean that what we have achieved so far is up to the socialist standard. Not until the middle of the next century, when we have reached the level of the moderately developed countries, shall we be able to say that we have really built socialism and to declare convincingly that it is superior to capitalism. We are advancing towards that goal.

In the course of building socialism and trying to modernize we have encountered some interference from the “Left”. Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of our Party, we have been concentrating on combating “Left” mistakes, because those are the ones we have made in the past. But there has also been interference from the Right. By that we mean the call for wholesale Westernization, which would lead not to socialism but to capitalism. We have already coped with the recent widespread ideological trend in favour of bourgeois liberalization and made some changes of personnel."

Deng Xiaoping, “To Uphold Socialism We Must Eliminate Poverty”. I recommend reading it fully. Here it is: https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/to-uphold-socialism-we-must-eliminate-poverty/ Deng’s complete works are very important to read. He should be at the level of the ‘Big Five’.

These quotes are excellent. Deng and Xi know what’s up, and they really follow Marx to the core, and elevate socialism into a new century. They have not stagnated.

It’d would be cool if these could be done about China. Maybe also about Germany and the UK, and then Vietnam, to compare some others in the socialist and capitalist camp. Would also be fun to see how much the Defense spending was in the USSR.

This is a masterpiece.

Woah, I’d only heard stuff about him, he seemed pretty cool. Glad to have seen this, what a disaster.

It’s always the same fairytale, how tedious.

Completamente de acuerdo. Esperemos que Xi siga virando a China en una buena dirección. El artículo es muy bueno si no lo leyeron, cita a Marx y a Engels también.

Y te dicen que lo entienden, y cinco minutos después vuelven a la misma idea, parece como si las tuvieran pegadas.

Excelente Engels. Es evidente que esto junto con la NEP de Lenin fueron la inspiración para las reformas de Deng. Creo que muchos idealistas deberían empezar a entender esto, la dificultades con las que se enfrenta el que tiene que crear una sociedad nueva arriba de la vieja y encima con el mundo básicamente enteramente capitalista.