Re: [Marxism] Mao Tse-Tung ...etc

[Marv Gandall <marvgandall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Artesian writes:

>I consider the Russian Revolution to have been the single greatest, most
> important event in human history.  I consider the Chinese Revolution to
> have
> been as I described it, the result of the inability of capitalism to
> afford
> the conditions for its own birth and the defeat of the proletarian
> revolution-- creating an extension of the "deformed" or whatever you want
> to
> call it Soviet with a capital S system.
>
> Was it progressive?  That's like asking me if Russia's defeat of Nazi
> Germany was progressive-- of course it was...
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Good. But you haven't explained why you consider the Chinese revolution to
have been historically progressive. All your remarks have indicated
otherwise. You scoffed at Cod and questioned "what exactly the Chinese
revolution achieved", and rejected my suggestion that it "accomplished the
'bourgeois-democratic tasks' of national independence, land reform,
industrialization, and a general rise in the material and cultural standards
of the people. It achieved these goals through the destruction of the KMT
army and the elimination of the landlord and capitalist classes."

So, if not the foregoing, what did the revolution accomplish which now
prompts your agreement that "of course" it was an historical advance? It's
not clear to me what other measures of progress you have in mind.



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