Autonomarx [he/him]

They did the same thing in supporting the Kuomintang from the Japanese conquest of China right up until the Maoists pushed them out of the mainland. Do you think that perhaps inferior methods of military and industrial organization could have played a part in this, or should Mao have called Stalin red fash and given up?

Let’s spend the EV money on a time machine and drop a comically large anvil on Henry Ford

Do you have any specific book recommendations on this?

I agree with the first sentence and disagree with the latter. The world capitalist system was in decline by the end of the 1980s, the USSR was successful in exporting revolution even as they were actively impeded by China, and the socialist bloc walled off a vast portion of the world to capitalist exploitation. The Soviet Union’s fall gave the West a shot in the arm that is only wearing off today. These things are awful for humanity in the long run, but the CPC’s continued governance is likely the best of a terrible situation atm.

As i said earlier in this thread, the fact that these things happened is justification enough to question China’s commitment to socialism. In spite of his abandonment of Stalin, Khrushchev didn’t ditch Cuba and back a Batista color revolution or something. Just because they aren’t doing these specific monstrous things now doesn’t mean it’s ridiculous to question the CPC. What sense does it make to separate the reforms from the policies that literally helped the United States continue its imperialist hegemony?

These are crimes on a massive scale that helped contribute to the collapse of the socialist bloc and to the period of vicious reaction we currently live in. They aren’t just ‘mistakes’, and if you understand them as seriously as they should be it makes sense to question the legitimacy of the socialist project

Under Deng China invaded Vietnam, supported the Khmer Rouge, helped the US against the USSR with Operation Cyclone, supported the South Africa-backed UNITA and FNLA, and didn’t re-normalize relations with the USSR until pizza man visited. To characterize the critique of China as irrational ultra-leftism is to argue in bad faith.