• mhurley187 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    A discussion of Mao where no one in the thread is calling him a red fascist? We can't have this, I'm calling up all my reddit bros asap to fix this

    • Kuomintang [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      It's how you frame the history and present the facts. Under Mao, millions of landlords died but Mao was literally just letting the peasants do what they had wanted to do for dynasties. The Chinese landowning class was FAR worse than the kulaks

            • UranicTomcat [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              I was just reading the wiki article on Mao and it sounds like before him revolutionaries thought revolution would be fought by the urban poor and they ignored the rural poor. Mao basically said "fuck that I'm organizing the rural poor too" and it fucking worked. In hindsight it seems so obvious but it took until Mao for it to happen

            • elguwopismo [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Yeah it seems to very much cover the same issues that have drawn me to Luxemburg/Lukacs in my readings. I need to read Mao dammit

            • worldisafuck [any]
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              4 years ago

              do you have some recommended reading on it, brother chapo?

          • KiaKaha [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Farmers really hated sparrows eating their crops. One disrupted ecosystem later, and...

    • anthm17 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It's because we all agree with what happened to the landlords.