Decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, the legacy of the Sino-Soviet split stands out sharply in the history of socialism and the Cold War as a major turning point, impacting conflicts all over the world and within the movement, the collapses of 89-91, and China's relationship with the West and embrace of foreign investment.
How do Marxists in China (inside and outside of the CPC) think of it? As justified, as a mistake, as well-intentioned but with bad consequences? What works of theory analyzes its causes, effects? And in light of China's reform and opening up, how is "revisionism", in general and as an ideological rebuke of liberalization in the post-Stalin era in particular, understood?
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The CIA infiltrated truckers unions in Chile before 9/11 to try and shut down the country, and the anti-communist Union "Solidarity" in Poland was largely responsible for the fall of the socialist system there during the turn of the 90s. Unions are an important tool in class struggle but they can realistically only go so far, a well armed and studied party can be almost infinitely more effective.
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Unions are of course an extremely powerful system, which is why the USA spends so much money and time trying to infiltrate them.