once asked a chinese dude what we thinks of mao and he said 'he is my personal hero and a legend to all chinese people'

Main reason why CPC still pretends to be communist btw

He is responsible for the deaths of millions, may he rot in piss

China woulda been India-tier or worse in terms of development if it wasn't for Mao so ...

what the f***

yeah dude lets have fuedal landlords have the most power in the village, making the entire village crippled in debt and starving while they parasitically hoard the villagers millet

like what a f***ing uncompromising take. he made mistakes, but the overall positives outweigh the negatives. he wasn't a dictator. he didn't do it on purpose. it was a mistake in policy.

there used to be famines every other year and villagers had to f***ing stay motionless in the compacted-dirt floored hut because they didn't have enough calories to sustain through the winter because of the repressive reign of the landlords. he is a f***ing hero.

anyway happy birthday to the NPA as well

Debatable if he was a net good for China, but Im referring to @Womanpuncher69 claiming him as an international hero, imo thats laughable when he made the Khmer Rogue reign possible

you guys heard of posadists before?

His foreign policy was very retärded. Pol Pot stuff was more Deng era though. Deng worked together with Khmer Rouge even after Vietnamese defeated them and supported the insurgency against the Peoples Republic of Kampuchea

Posadas himself wasn't that crazy (still loony though). His sect degenerated after he died (shoutout Gonzalo) and started adding a bunch of stuff to his ideas that he never said. Then it got revived as an internet meme on places like leftypol.

Smoking on that landlord pack tonight yea tonight.....

J. Posadas

Flying saucers, the process of matter and energy,
science, the revolutionary and working-class struggle
and the socialist future of mankind

(26 June 1968)

marxists.org/archive/posadas/1968/06/flyingsaucers.html

the khmer rouge s*** wasn’t even his foreign policy, it was during the cultural revolution and the rightist controlled the foreign policy

i hate "libertarian socialist" debate bros lmao

At least he says the collapse was bad (although ignoring that the USSR at its collapse was a firmly capitalist society, openly so)

ight

merry christmas

There’s, quite conveniently, no a***ysis of the conditions that led to the USSR’s dissolution

"But to attribute reproduction to force alone borders on the absurd. Under normal conditions, the effectiveness of coercion depends at least on the inability or unwillingness of those subjected to it to join together in opposing it. Laws generally considered illegitimate tend to lose their coercive power, and undisguised force too frequently applied tends to be self-defeating. The consolidation and extension of capitalism has engendered struggles of furious intensity. Yet instances of force against a united and active opposition are sporadic and have usually given way to detente in one form or another through a combination of compromise, structural change, and ideological accommodation.

Thus it is clear that the consciousness of workers - beliefs, values, self-concepts, types of solidarity and fragmentation, as well as modes of personal behavior and development - are integral to the perpetuation, validation, and smooth operation of economic institutions.

The reproduction of the social relations of production depends on the reproduction of consciousness"

From schooling in capitalist america. thought this part was good tbh, there's more to it but didnt wanna type

Remember when twitter took away maduros blue checkmark and gave it to guaido

Does anyone want to Stalin- or USSR-pill me? I’m just dumb brainwashed American indoctrinated with years of stories of the horrors of the Soviet Union. If anyone has some (at least neutral) links or books that relay what life was like or how society, the economy, or government were structured, plz drop em below