• psychothumbs@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Tbh everything I said above could be applied to Mao as well. He had the genius insight that the path to power in China lay in a military struggle mobilizing the peasantry when everyone else in party leadership thought that was crazy and un-Marxist, but then when that insight translated into running China he did not do a good job and should have listened to his fellow party members.

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      4 months ago

      Great points.

      And looking throughout Chinese history, there hasn’t been a leader as leftist as Mao since Mao either. In present day China, the Maoist Communist Party of China (and basically every anti-revisionist communist party) is banned.

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        4 months ago

        What are you saying here? My criticizing Mao’s leadership implies I think China collapsed last year?