I feel like a lot of the youtube left has become maoist-adjacent
executing a coup d’etat in 1976 and just sitting on my thumb for 4 years until i become leader
Lenin declared his own policies to be state capitalist. State capitalism is not the same thing as liberal capitalism, and it turns out to not be a great system, but it is a type of socialism.
Yeah he was a very innovative man. We forget he saw the future about 100 years ago.
the Marxist-Leninists of all countries must relentlessly expose them, fight them
Imagine people at the EFF read this quote and are like “I guess we gotta invade China now.”
Liberals rallying around China bad vs Maoists rallying around China bad
If Mao was so great, why did he create the conditions for “bourgeois elements to emerge and seize power,” and what should he have done differently? Cultural Revolution, but harder? There’s never any serious analysis of that question, at least that I’ve seen. The material conditions of the people of China improved with both Mao and Deng and the others.
I mean, you can succeed in some respects and fail in others. We can blame Stalin for Khrushchev, but it’s very different from how we blame Khrushchev.
But what’s the specific criticism, about what should’ve been done differently?
For Stalin? Clearly the multiple saboteurs, wreckers, etc. who were able to reach the highest positions in government and wreak havoc before being removed is a subject of concern, and Trotsky seriously should not have been left to roam free for a decade and publish his “anti-stalinist” polemics.
