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  • xiaohongshu [none/use name]
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    6 hours ago

    As mentioned, I was responding to the statement that the American left cannot do anything because they have been uniquely repressed by a “strong” government, and gave an example that the Chinese had strategy that worked in particular to their material conditions. I used the Chinese example because I am well familiar with its history.

    That “retreat to the countryside” you’re mentioning cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of comrades who were forced to trek through dangerous terrains. More than 95% of the people who started the journey did not make it.

    Also, to claim that the PLA took power only after the Japanese invasion is absurd. The reforms that started in the Yan’an countryside would hold key to the ultimate mass defection of the KMT during the People’s Liberation War, who outnumbered the communists 6 to 1. The foundation for success started decades before because Mao had already identified that land reform would be the key to unleash the revolutionary potential of the feudal land-holding peasantry class.

    You need to identify the strategy and start working on them because otherwise you would not have been able to seize when the opportunity arrives. No such equivalent exists in the American left today. No theory. No strategy.

    And finally, the principal contradictions of American capitalism is not land, like in China’s case, it’s debt. I’ve read through PSL’s program and the word “debt” did not even come up once. How is that not concerning.

    • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]
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      2 hours ago

      I’ve read through PSL’s program and the word “debt” did not even come up once. How is that not concerning.

      As a DSA member I find that hilarious.