I’m talking about deeply held beliefs you have that many might disagree with here or deem to be incompatible with Marxist ideology. I’m interested because I doubt everyone here is an ideological robot who all share the same uniformity in belief
I’m talking about deeply held beliefs you have that many might disagree with here or deem to be incompatible with Marxist ideology. I’m interested because I doubt everyone here is an ideological robot who all share the same uniformity in belief
I think the USSR went too far with pretending certain events never happened, which makes those events seem more significant than they were. Example: When they edited out Trotsky from pictures, it was completely unnecessary, it’s easy to explain Trotsky’s faults and whitewashing history by acting like he wasn’t an instrumental part of the Revolution is a band-aid solution to the problem of revisionism and reformism.
i think China are perfect on this front. They condemn both the ultra-left who uphold Mao but denigrate Deng and the ultra right who denounce Mao and only uphold Deng. China recognises that the cultural revolution was an abhorrent mistake whilst also praising Mao as the hero of the nation who delivered them from chaos and allowed Deng to bring them into modernity. Mao was a great leader, but not infallible : the same goes for all socialist heroes.
I agree modern China is pretty Even-Keeled and as much as I like Maoist era China, they were kinda open and out propaganda at times this song is a banger but the lyrics are a bit intense for a dude that had reasonable criticisms of certain policies of Mao’s. I mean I would need to look more into him but I checked a bit on him and he seems ok on the surface
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