I mean, ok, I've been simultaneously deep diving into some Maoist (JMP) kind of thought, and trying to make sense of the form of the liberal hot takes about "genocide" during the GLF and PGCR. It seems obvious that Mao would heavily criticize the rapid liberalization, the selling out the environment for cheap, underethical heavy industry, the necessity of party authority to maintain a lid on rich bourgeoisie business elites as opposed to continuous popular class struggle. He'd likely admire though Xi Jinping crack downs on the rich and the corrupt. The investment in poverty reduction, I would hope. There is much good in Modern China. Mao got to be in charge for long enough to matter. The spirit, if not of revolution, then of socialism abounds. The anti-imperialist agenda alone is worth applauding.
I mean, ok, I've been simultaneously deep diving into some Maoist (JMP) kind of thought, and trying to make sense of the form of the liberal hot takes about "genocide" during the GLF and PGCR. It seems obvious that Mao would heavily criticize the rapid liberalization, the selling out the environment for cheap, underethical heavy industry, the necessity of party authority to maintain a lid on rich bourgeoisie business elites as opposed to continuous popular class struggle. He'd likely admire though Xi Jinping crack downs on the rich and the corrupt. The investment in poverty reduction, I would hope. There is much good in Modern China. Mao got to be in charge for long enough to matter. The spirit, if not of revolution, then of socialism abounds. The anti-imperialist agenda alone is worth applauding.
oh yeah, uh :mao-aggro-shining: :mao-clap: :mao-wave: :mao-shining:
:lenin-sleeping: :stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2:
Tbh Lenin's premature death may have saved us from having to struggle sesh about his bad decisions in his later life
I'd be willing to at least throw out the idea that Stalin was good but was defeated by revisionists.