On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 04:58 PM, Michael Yates wrote: Deng reversed course, Zhen Xu arguing, doing great harm to peasants a agriculture alike. So, it wasn't just Deng's foreign policy. I don't see

I'll leave it to the co-moderators to sort out what's going on here in details. I'll just say this to Farans and Jeffrey, you've both said your peace to each other, my suggestion is to stay away from

On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 03:17 PM, Jeffrey Masko wrote: I have no idea. If you'd just stopped there, I think we could all agree. One last time: 1) You've apparently had some sort of kerfuffle with

Replying to Andrew: OK, so China may have been doing things to curry favor with the US before Nixon. My point was about the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution being driven more by Mao's

Isn't Horne a CPer. I didn't know he was a China expert, and I have edited four of his books.

Andrew, you really should read Zhun Xu's very fine book on the Chinese agricultural communes. Deng reversed course, Zhen Xu arguing, doing great harm to peasants a agriculture alike. So, it wasn't

On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 04:27 PM, <gilschaeffer82@...> wrote: The deal with the US after 1972 also entailed the abandonment of support for anti-US anti-imperialist movements. China became more

Nothing is just solely the case. It was just the primary motive at the time. The deal with the US after 1972 also entailed the abandonment of support for anti-US anti-imperialist movements. China

On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 02:49 PM, <gilschaeffer82@...> wrote: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was aimed at avoiding Chinese involvement in Vietnam and offering the US a way out of war in

I have no idea what you're talking about, troll. Stop posting your sludge and go crawl into your hole of sweeping generalizations.

The Great Leap Forward was not primarily an economic policy at all but part of China's crash program to develop nuclear weapons after the USSR broke off its nuclear technology sharing agreement with

Thank you LOUIS for creating this link and thank you ANdrew for demonstrating its use -- I NEVER KNEW that Deng was trained by Bukharin --- (when I was an undergraduate I took lectures from Charles

Hello Dayne: Thanks for posting. Of course take my information below as you choose, but I thought I'd pass on to you some cautions I got. The post was obviously of potential interest. However I felt

The Great Leap Forward failed because of the vast difference between the Soviets after the end of the Civil War and the Chinese after their Civil War. Besides certain resemblances in their experience

Philosophy is not a good way to do history. But you might find philosophy in history. For example, from an essay, "Socialism Is a Series of Communist Projects:" After nearly 25 years of people’s

Greene is a very detailed thinker but he misses some rather basic sociological matters that fundamentally deflate all of these intellectual somersaults. Mao was playing a shell game and hoodwinked

Ed: i am working up some code to search the archives i have on disk, going back to 1994 Spoons list i believe.  Mark seemed to post on marxmail between 2000 and 2003. i'm searching for posts by him

" Usually such sectarianism develops in combination with the group's ultraleftism because a central feature of ultraleftism is raising demands which do not have significant support among the working

VERY VERY interesting --- Is it possible, though, that Mao (like Stalin) once in power came to believe that HE (because of his superior understanding??) possessed all that was necessary to direct the

According to Mao Zedong, the principal law of materialist dialectics is the unity of opposites. Thus, it is quite fitting to observe that we can find the unity of opposites on display in evaluations