Weird how an ideology that depends on rejecting ideas and evidence keeps adapting to new evidence and contexts.
I wonder why Cuban marxism is so different than Chinese marxism which is different from Soviet marxism, which is different from every south american country's marxisms.
One might even think they're taking a Scientific approach to Socialism.
What purity test exactly do you feel is too much? Respecting pronouns? Not supporting capitalism? Not doing racism? I'm not aware of anything they ban for that any reasonable leftist shouldn't pass.
Modern China seems like a capitalist country in a communist hat to me
I don't know enough on the subject to make any strong claims, but actions since the Hu Jintao era seem somewhat consistent with the "bird cage economy" idea where capitalism exists within specific bounds as a tool to develop the means of production and the capitalist class is subservient to the state rather than the other way around.
I very much wish America didn’t offshore everything. If they hadn’t, it would be good for inequality and better for the climate.
Why would you expect a capitalist country whose ruling class believe they can insulate themselves from the effects of climate change be better on the climate than a socialist country with 5x more people whose breadbasket is in danger?
Whether you agree with his outcomes or not, I assume we agree that Mao was a vicious, mass-murdering dictator.
I haven't read much on the subject, but from what I understand, similar to the way the landlords were liquidated, during the cultural revolution it wasn't Mao going "kill these people" so much as the party telling villages "Set up courts and try the
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, we'll support whatever punishments you deem necessary. Here's why this is needed, these are some punishments we've seen effective at achieving the desired result" and they did.
Giving this kind of autonomy to the locals tends to result in people using the system to settle old scores or get promotions, especially when the scope was expanded to potentially target anyone during the cultural revolution. Similar mechanisms resulted in "Stalin's" terror.
As far as I can gather, Mao was a great revolutionary but a garbage administrator who probably would be remembered like Lenin if he died in the late 50s.
It's Marxism-leninism adapted to the specific context of China. The scientific part of scientific socialism means you adapt your model based on experience. When they tried to adopt the soviet model as prescribed by the soviets, they suffered significant setbacks multiple times. I wish I could find the transcript of Mao referencing specific failures during and after the revolution to an Albanian (maybe Yugoslavian ambassador) after Stalin's death which illuminated a lot of the sino-soviet split for me, but google fails me.
A lot of westerners consider the overthrow of the gang of 4 after the cultural revolution to be a betrayal of MLism, here's the CPC's evaluation 5 years later. Section 32 is relevant to the course they've been following since, the rest is background and justification.
Capitalist doesn't mean someone who supports capitalism, those people are called liberals, capitalists are people who own significant amounts of capital.
Typically it's only used to refer to the big capitalists, your car dealership owners to owner-operator plumbers are small capitalists whose class interests are generally opposed to both workers and big capitalists.
Less than 1% of the population are big capitalists, and of them I'd support all of them getting rehabilitated once they're no longer a threat, the death penalty only makes sense against active threats IMO.
Though China has had some success using the death penalty in cases of gross social murder, such as when a baby formula maker poisoned a dozen babies, several executives were executed, and they haven't had any baby formula contamination since.
Historically socialist states are very pro-rehabilitation, once the former ruling class is not an immediate threat. PuYi for example, the last emperor of China, who'd been a willing puppet of Japan, ended up living his life doing menial jobs such as street sweeper, actor, gardener, and tour guide.
Nicholas II on the other hand, had white armies fighting just a few hundred miles away and potentially the armies of Europe making him an active threat.
Publix sells pizza-ready doughs, rip some off, flatten, put some jar sauce, pre-shredded cheese, and sprinkly with tiny pepperoni, bake that's like 2 minutes of work.
The two aren't mutually exclusive. Like when the CIA supported the Maidan coup or any other color revolution, the GRU taking advantage of very real grievances of the Russian-speaking population of Donbass to advance its own geopolitical interests at the expense of those same people doesn't mean those grievances didn't exist or that those people were happy being part of a Ukrainian state that made them second-class citizens.
While most users on hexbear are MLs, there's still contingents of anarchists, like 2 trots, and some other left ideologies.