Hey comrades, this is an article I’ve written in response to DashRendar’s essay on Maoism, which you can find here: https://dashthered.medium.com/yo-dawg-the-maoists-have-a-point-9024983ee56a
Consider this the “full” version of a response I made here on Lemmygrad just a few days ago. I realised that I had way too much to say to fit into a well-formatted post here, so I made an account on Medium and wrote an entire article instead :D Hope you comrades enjoy.
Yeah, the Cultural Revolution doesn’t make sense to me.
Socialism will eventually have to outproduce capitalism in order to overthrow it. I’d have nothing against a cultural revolution that just went after landlords and other parasites. But to kill scientists and shut down universities is to shoot yourself in the foot at the start of the race.
The CR and the GLF where some very big Ls on Mao goverment, even if he haved good intentions. And the biggest cause of those radical measures was that China needed some very big reforms so it could be compared with the USSR and the west, but without losing their independence to the USSR and keeping out of revisionism and staying socialist. The thing is, there was no sistem at the time that could do all of this, lots of people tried, but it eventually was just an version of the USSR model or the Maoist China model, that where both very flawed. Thats why Deng is so important, he invented an sistem that could do all of that. If he whent on power 15-20 years earlier and did his reforms as succesfully as he did on the normal timeline, we could still have an much bigger socialist influence on the world.
I cannot agree more
This was part of Nikita Khrushchev’s Peaceful Coexistence.
Khrushchev saying it doesn’t automatically make it wrong.
Also, I’m pretty sure Stalin had basically the same idea with the way he rapidly industrialised the USSR. So I’m not sure why it’s suddenly bad in your eyes when Khrushchev points it out.
— Stalin, Speech to Industrial Managers, February 1931
Chad papa Stalin.
There you have it :)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/oct/17.htm