About the first world war: The US was predetermined to be on the UK's side because of its strong financial ties to Britain before the war and the procurements boom during the war (which lifted the US out of a recession) benefitting mostly the Entente due to geography and weak financial connections to the Central Powers, but actually sending troops was contingent because the President, the public and a chunk of congress all happened to be fiercly anti-War. Woodrow Wilson thought he could force a peace by limiting American finance to the Entente. But the refusal of either side to negotiate and Germany's intensifying attacks on American ships amidst the procurements boom made him capitulate and declare war.

China learns from history like any good Marxist Leninist should. They learned that they can't focus on helping other countries and should help themselves before they help others. Otherwise they will end up in proxy wars and conflicts with the US like the Soviet Union.

China needs railroads and the machinery and expertise are found in other countries. However other countries won't do business with a communist country so China has to make certain concessions to capitalists from other countries in order to get what they need.

Just because you trade your wallet for you life during a robbery doesn't mean you support robbery or a a robber yourself. Same thing with China doing business with the capitalist west doesn't mean China isn't communist.

However most capitalists are liberals and idealists and don't understand materialism so they view communism countries through this idealist lens and essential have dogmatic views of Marxism.

Were there any Dengists in the 80s? Dengists today call themselves MLs, but MLs were already off China by the time Deng came to power, so where would they get their support from?

Were there any prominent communist parties supporting China

Remember, politics is very simple: centralized bad, decentralized good

Planning bad markets good, bc decentralized

State-backed currency bad bitcoin good, bc decentralized

Yugoslavia bad, balkanization good, bc decentralized

Overturning roe v wade good, bc decentralized

Private healthcare>>>socialized healthcare, bc decentralized

Confederates good unionists bad, bc decentralized

SMALL GOOD BIG BAD

SMALL VS BIG IS THE PRINCIPAL CONTRADICTION

Why does Switzerland exist

Real

Feel like s*** just want him back fr

He benefitted from Mao overplaying his cards and having to crawl back to him once no other ally was left and Mao was getting older and sicker

Dengoid brainworms

The funny part about this argument is that it defines failure solely by whether or not a country keeps it government intact

Like obviously China under Xi and China under Mao are vastly different

We need 800 billionaires or the USA will kill China

World War 1: swooping in at the end to share the winner's spoils

World War 2: Japan forced their hand and Germany was attacking their allies UK and France

Churchill was always seething about having to work with the Soviets AFAIK

Love how they don't even mention Iraq or Afghanistan

Quick, whats their "Free Election Barometer Score, Brought To You By Human Rights Watch Dot Org"?

The presidential primaries are really funny there's one caucus (I think Nevada) where they just have to go in the corner of the room to indicate which candidate they support and they do a rough estimate which corner has the most people

Also there was a coin toss that they manipulated in another state lmfao

I can't find the coin toss on YouTube did they memory hole it

Classic

Dengoids in other countries simply turned social democrat or neoliberal. China can't do it because Mao was still so popular with the people (and still is). That's basically why.

My buddy really thought like this

His ideal form of government would have been local city governments deciding almost everything

And then there would be a competition between the cities to be better than the other to attract inhabitants and business

You should ask about Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Andorra and San Marino first

But you didn't have communist parties say China was communist and that Deng was carrying out the masterplan right

A lot of parties turned Maoist in the 70s because supporting China was less controversial than supporting the USSR in the West, since the USSR was their mortal enemy and China was the running dog of Nixon by then

So when China drifted again a lot of them just abandoned communism, some few turned to Hoxhaism, I think a party or two turned towards Cuba and Castro, and the rest went social democrat

I read a lot about different parties and I cant recall any Dengoid party in the 80s

The closest communist party to Dengoidism right now is the Russian Communist Party I think

Europe has a lot of Maoist-to-neoliberal politicians

Being a Maoist was very en vogue those days and didn't have the baggage of the USSR, same with being a Trotskyist

And the pro-USSR parties often had a similar fate of course, turning into generic left-liberal parties