Agree with most things here, but one thing that's missing is their treatment of the past. Khrushchev totally denounced Stalin, decried his project, and sucked the wind out of anybody who believed in the future of communism in the USSR and elsewhere. I cannot overstate how big of a deal the Secret Speech was at the time, and how truly awful it was for communists around the world. The CPC has done nothing of the sort with Mao, and while their official policy is the Cultural Revolution was Not Great, there is no talk at all within any organ of the CPC that Mao and the early communists were dictatorial, evil, or anything of the sort. 70% good, 30% bad allows you to have a cohesive line going from Mao to now, which only strengthens communist resolve.
China mostly supported anti-colonial movements as well, they actually spent a higher percentage of their budget on aid to African nations etc than the USSR did.
Agree with most things here, but one thing that's missing is their treatment of the past. Khrushchev totally denounced Stalin, decried his project, and sucked the wind out of anybody who believed in the future of communism in the USSR and elsewhere. I cannot overstate how big of a deal the Secret Speech was at the time, and how truly awful it was for communists around the world. The CPC has done nothing of the sort with Mao, and while their official policy is the Cultural Revolution was Not Great, there is no talk at all within any organ of the CPC that Mao and the early communists were dictatorial, evil, or anything of the sort. 70% good, 30% bad allows you to have a cohesive line going from Mao to now, which only strengthens communist resolve.
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China mostly supported anti-colonial movements as well, they actually spent a higher percentage of their budget on aid to African nations etc than the USSR did.