From my perspective Mao was basically mostly correct early on if we take the split at face value. But it was also driven by the fact that both the USSR and China were pursuing a national project to varying degrees, and for the industrialized Soviets who felt confident in their security, supporting worldwide revolution was more trouble than it was worth. After Hitler blew his brains I feel like the constant existential fear of the early Soviet years mostly disappeared.

Meanwhile in a weaker and underdevelopped China which didn't stop fighting existential threats until the 50s before being surrounded by Taiwan, South Korea and having the Vietnam war at their doorstep, I think that fear was much more prominent. To the Soviets who were powerful enough the concept of coexistence with the Capitalists made sense, to the Chinese it was absurd. The USSR had a seat at the UN while even recognizing the PRC wasn't necessary to the outside world.

You can see the same dynamic with Cuba which basically dragged the Soviets into wars of independence on Africa.

Imo every instance of "socialism in one country" there is a tension between the socialist project and the national project, and in most cases the leadership will shed the former in favor of the latter as time goes on. I'm not moralizing it thats just how I interpret the events.

But China in the 60s was earlier on that timeline than the USSR, and I think the Cultural Revolution for all its faults was really an attempt to prevent that kind of degeneration. Some also view it as Mao trying to regain power after the failure of great leap forward but I don't think they're mutually exclusive. Anyways according to Yiching Wu by the late 60s the Cultural Revolution started questioning the foundations of PRC and that's when Mao decided to defuse it because it threatened national stabilitt. To me that's an example of leaning on the national project against the socialist project. And so you get the slow rehabilitation of the rightists in the CPC.

That's the period when Chinese foreign policy really goes to s*** imo. The way I understand the shift is that the CPC leadership thought if the choices are doing the cultural revolution or preserving the existing structure of the PRC then we rather have "stability". If international revolution isn't happening and the play is just squabbling for influence in the third world in service of your interests, then we rather do that even if it means just supporting whoever is antisoviet. Because if making peace with the Soviet led world socialist order means joining an unbalanced relationship then we rather change that world order to either suit us instead or just not them lest the relationship becomes even more unbalanced.

on the late 60s point the cultural revolution was only supposed to be against Lin Biao and end in 69 it only ended up going to 76 cause of the rise of Deng and his faction

Also disagree on the last paragraph about international revolution well there wasn’t a revolution, the world was still through going immense revolt with the contradictions between Labor and Capital being at its peak , like with May 68 being the most prominent example. Until the birth of Neoliberalism and the opening of cheap labour in China due to the defeat of the Left line lead to the current domination of Capital we see today

the world if the PCF listened to the workers and pushed for revolution

All socialists need to be more committed to the womens’ rights movement and the subsequent action that must be undertaken in consideration of its objectives

Radical liberalist feminism in the west has entirely undermined and disregarded the exploitation women undergo in the s***industry and in existent s***relations themselves. Decreasing the social stigma of this industry does nothing to solve the inherent patriarchal exploitation of people who are primarily women in the s***industry.

a lotta feminist leaders from this wave were basically open CIA assets (i.e. Gloria Steinem) and the trajectory there shouldnt be surprising regardless because feminism in the US specifically, unlike many other countries, basically was a constant origination of "good thing being pushed for the wrong reason"; virtually all of the early mainstream movements for feminism in the US originated in corporate propaganda. I mean the most famous piece of feminist art in American History, the "We Can Do It!" poster, was literally corporate propaganda. The origins of the normalization of many social trends like woman being able to publicly partake in bars/clubs, smoking, wearing different clothing (i.e. flapper dresses in the early 1900s), was all the result of corporate propaganda campaigns as well but are now retroactively heralded as major steps in womens rights lol

it doesnt help that in schools when it comes to the feminism topic in the US instead of being exposed to actual and meaningful feminist theorists kids just learn maybe a month about suffrage then learn about people like Steinem. there's been a lot of great actual feminist writers in the US and virtually none are taught in schools

A good amount of white feminism was also a reaction to the prospects of black men getting more rights than them during reconstruction

thats also definitely true separately, i just think the corporate angle of stuff is really underdiscussed because people in retrospect laud a bunch of historical progressions without realizing like all of them were the direct result of corporations trying to manipulate society and sentiment in order to make money and that entire like maybe 100 years of american womens history have been completely whitewashed (literally i guess lol) in textbooks and such

REBEL AGAINST THE PATRIARCHY, SMOKE A CIGARETTE

NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WORKING IN A FACTORY IN TERRIBLE CONDITIONS GETTING UNDERPAID WHILE YOUR HUSBAND DIES AT WAR IS ACTUALLY LIBERATING

If you thought someone might nuke you, you wouldn’t split from them?

anarchist revolution any day now

920 updoots 😭😭

I'm f***ing crying bro

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"Wild food"

This is a actually a good time to say that people making gardens/ foraging isn’t inherently revolutionary. What a f***ing weird concept, no idea where it came from

Radlibs will not feed anyone with a simple green lead garden / by foraging

Eating leaves doesn’t give you any calories. Need to grow specific foods like maize, potato, bean, etc on a medium-large scale but I never see this done

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how can marx be a communist if he never made a video essay

FINALLY i can get some p****

love how she got like 6 sexual harassment accusations within the period of a week shortly after this

the origin of people using gardening as some statement against society literally originated in like right wing circles and nazism lol

The entire “country suburbanite with a strong nuclear family and large single family home working the family garden” is literally lebensraum / manifest destiny propaganda

as someone who’s into gardening this ain’t looking to good for me