"Something we haven't experienced in centuries, is that the greatest power in the world does not share our values. This is the world we're heading towards as China grows in power."

:xi-gun: :sicko-yes:

translated from his speech at the Nordic Council today btw

  • winterchillie [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    :deng-smile: Deng really had the last laugh, I consider him largely vindicated

      • please_dont [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        He wasnt, but he was still really cool in practice too as a revolutionary. Participated in the long march and was in important positions in the cpc pre revolution in a lot of chinese civil war epic communist shit. Mao actualy had to jump in and tell him to chill cause he was too brutal during the Anti-rightist campaign later in the 50s

          • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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            3 years ago

            I always did think he had the winning smile of someone constantly remembering the time they merked a bunch of reactionaries.

            • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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              3 years ago

              "Alleged counter revolutionaries"

              If one had read only lib sources, one could be forgiven for thinking that actual counter revolutionaries aren't a thing, or are some type of incredibly rare cryptid.

              • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Revolutions are believable, but people trying to prevent a revolution is not. Counter revolutionaries must be a made up excuse the revolutionaries use to engage in violence! Yeah that makes more sense :yea:

    • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I'm seeing him in a better light than I used to but I still think a lot of things could have gone wrong since his reforms. Maybe I should read up on it a bit more.

      • please_dont [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Well he himself did expect and was content with future generations seeing him as a "not clearly correct and good" figure

        I would be quite content if I myself could be rated 50/50 in merits and demerits. But one thing I can say for myself: I have had a clear conscience all my life. Please mark my words: I have made quite a few mistakes, and I have my own share of responsibility for some of the mistakes made by Comrade Mao Zedong. But it can be said that I made my mistake with good intentions. There is nobody who doesn’t make mistakes.

    • please_dont [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      We are still far from the historical point of him being clearly vindicated from a socialist perspective but chances only seem to slowly get better with time .So if that ends up being the case Deng would have in retrospect played the greatest hand in human history