• Speaker [e/em/eir]
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      4 years ago

      TIL that Mao never read Marx and synthesized the ideas he advanced. :thinkin-lenin:

      • ComradeNagual [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        China has thousands of years of culture and tradition, ML now coexists with them, after a period of strife, just as it would with Lakota or other first people's beliefs

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          That does not rebut the idea that Chinese ML is part of the European intellectual tradition. The use of "coexists" also definitely gives it an air of ideological imperialism/colonialism, that ML is the only correct path for development of a society. Seems awful "we must civilize the savages" to me.

          • elguwopismo [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            This views Marxism as a step by step guide "This is how to do revolution bitch" rather than a rich dialectical framework that is dependent on the interpretations of its practitioners and applications to the unique material conditions that they exist in

          • ComradeNagual [none/use name]
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            ML is the political organization and economic of the state but the thousands of years of Chinese cultures also remain. The use of Coexists means that, they both exist at the same time.