Gotta pass through a period of capitalist industrialization before you can get to socialist surplus sharing. That's not Deng's fault. Marx spelled it out pretty clearly in Das Kapital.
Past that....
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Right off the bat, taking advice from Social Media Influencers is going to be both bad and bad for you.
Even if necessary, liberal influence is going to be deep and damaging. They're doing pretty nicely trying to root it out, but it still clings to life.
Also deng had some issues in over-privatizing, there was no need to break the communes, and the massive poverty came from disruption of the delicate planned economy in the first place. It was good to fully industrialize like its going, but that doesn't mean everything was positive.
No one will deny that Deng was a right-deviationist as Mao was a left-deviationist, merely that characterizing him as a neoliberal or as employing "shock therapy" or whatever is not accurate and he, like Mao, was still a Marxist.
It's a shorthand for someone who isn't opposition but made error that can be described in terms of other political alignments. Elsewhere I call the CR "utopian" not because Mao wasn't a Marxist socialist but because in his particular implementations there and sometimes elsewhere he made the same errors that utopians make. Deng likewise was too right wing in his approach, but not to the point of being an anti-Marxist.
Deng followed a heresy that Mao long warned against: he hijacked the People's Revolution onto the capitalist road. Cf.: "to get rich is glorious" "it doesn't matter if the cat is white or black as long as it catches mice"
Marx's Morginian, unilineal cultural evolution of feudalism -> capitalism -> communism is genuinely what he got wrong and Sylvia Federici does a great critique of it in Caliban and the Witch
It isn't simply cultural. At some point you need efficient engines of Capital to juice productivity and raise living standards.
But efficient capital necessarily displaces labor and results in a lumpen residual for some amount of time. A socialist government can stack the deck in favor of leftist ideological goals by deciding who gets promoted and who faces early retirement. But when capital comes online faster than workers reach retirement age, some amount of PMC / Lumpen population split is going to occur.
CatW addresses how European women were treated unfavorably during their transition. But it doesn't seem to explain how you simply avoid the problem of surplus labor.
Gotta pass through a period of capitalist industrialization before you can get to socialist surplus sharing. That's not Deng's fault. Marx spelled it out pretty clearly in Das Kapital.
Past that....
Right off the bat, taking advice from Social Media Influencers is going to be both bad and bad for you.
Even if necessary, liberal influence is going to be deep and damaging. They're doing pretty nicely trying to root it out, but it still clings to life.
Also deng had some issues in over-privatizing, there was no need to break the communes, and the massive poverty came from disruption of the delicate planned economy in the first place. It was good to fully industrialize like its going, but that doesn't mean everything was positive.
No one will deny that Deng was a right-deviationist as Mao was a left-deviationist, merely that characterizing him as a neoliberal or as employing "shock therapy" or whatever is not accurate and he, like Mao, was still a Marxist.
What does “deviationist” mean in this sense?
It's a shorthand for someone who isn't opposition but made error that can be described in terms of other political alignments. Elsewhere I call the CR "utopian" not because Mao wasn't a Marxist socialist but because in his particular implementations there and sometimes elsewhere he made the same errors that utopians make. Deng likewise was too right wing in his approach, but not to the point of being an anti-Marxist.
Deng followed a heresy that Mao long warned against: he hijacked the People's Revolution onto the capitalist road. Cf.: "to get rich is glorious" "it doesn't matter if the cat is white or black as long as it catches mice"
Marx's Morginian, unilineal cultural evolution of feudalism -> capitalism -> communism is genuinely what he got wrong and Sylvia Federici does a great critique of it in Caliban and the Witch
It isn't simply cultural. At some point you need efficient engines of Capital to juice productivity and raise living standards.
But efficient capital necessarily displaces labor and results in a lumpen residual for some amount of time. A socialist government can stack the deck in favor of leftist ideological goals by deciding who gets promoted and who faces early retirement. But when capital comes online faster than workers reach retirement age, some amount of PMC / Lumpen population split is going to occur.
CatW addresses how European women were treated unfavorably during their transition. But it doesn't seem to explain how you simply avoid the problem of surplus labor.