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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Capitalists use their data to claim that capitalism has elevated people out of poverty. They do not say out loud that all the observable progress in poverty reduction they can measure is due almost entirely to China. It's a lie by omission. The World Bank intentionally moved back the date they started measuring global poverty to retroactively capture China's data. Remove China's data from the model and global poverty has stayed relatively the same except a bigger global population means that there are actually more people living in poverty than when they started measuring it. Capitalists do not encourage the rest of the world to adopt China's model.