I'm much closer to MLM than ML.
Why not be honest about historical failure and revisionism?
Dengism and the Western Left
Elijah Nguyen
Isaac Turner
Imperialism isn't when the military does stuff.
Eli Ross
no it wasn't. religious fanaticism has existed in Afghanistan for yonks, it only increased when threatened by the socialist government. what did happen in response to the invasion was a unification of all the different religious groups, which would then split again when the Soviets left and the civil war resumed.
Josiah Nguyen
"Dengism" doesn't really exist, it's just Deng reacting to the material conditions of China at that time, he didn't have much choice. China wasn't self-sufficient in terms of energy and food (and still isn't today), so it was forced to attract foreign investment. De-collectivising the agriculture though and re-introducing literal Kulaks was a very bad choice, but otherwise, he didn't actually touch the socialist system build by Mao.
The problem was that he opened Pandora's Box, and his successors eagerly expanded on the capitalist mode of production in China, slowly transforming the socialist sector into a state capitalist sector in terms of management, as the percentage of private business for their GDP increases and CPCh officials increasingly benefiting from it. If you discard the Twitter ☭TANKIE☭s who read Sakai and cheer for yellow ethno-nationalism whenever they find it, most MLs who do not denounce China do not want to emulate the Chinese model for every other country, they just recognise China had little choice at that time. An exception is the retarded CPRF, who wants Dengism for Russia, a country that is and was (under the USSR) completely autarkic in terms of energy and food production. There is no reason to not introduce a wholesome planned economy for every industry, but for smaller countries, like the DPRK and Cuba, the Chinese model will remain not only attractive, but their only viable choice for the future.
Daniel Smith
That's a cursed image.
Elijah White
China was actually aligned with the US in that war.
Joshua Campbell
Brody Myers
You literally pick out the only ML state which really crashed and burned (despite many Romanians still having nostalgia for it), every other ML state increased quality of life and the economy quite consistently, except for maybe the African ones, who chose the label ML to align with the USSR, not for ideological reasons.
Nobody says every system is foofproof, but I wouldn't call Ceausescu a revisionist or opportunist, but merely a megalomaniac who introduced bad social policies and wanted to establish Juche with Romanian characteristics, which didn't fly with the Romanians. There was no "revision" of socialism under Ceauscescu, just bad policy decisions like aligning with some Western powers, the huge loans, the natalist policies, etc.
Luis Richardson
You know very well that Pinochet wasn't in power back then and served under Allende.
Aiden Wright
Come again?