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Is it generally understood that Mao was right in the Sino-Soviet split? (feddit.nl)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by fort_burp@feddit.nl to c/history@hexbear.net

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You guys are all much more well-read on communism than me, so I ask based on this quote:

As a reminder, the Sino-Soviet split occurred due to an ideological fracture in the Communist bloc whereby Mao accused the Soviets of being “revisionists” after Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization and his embrace of “peaceful coexistence” with the West.

Now that the ex-Soviet countries are pretty much all capitalist oligarchies and China is, well whatever it is but hugely successful and prosperous, is there a consensus about the Sino-Soviet split? I mean yea it sucks that it had to go down like that but can we say in general that Mao was right about that?

I know it's just an arbitrary point in time (as now) and that there were and are loads of factors at play so this is perhaps a simplistic way of framing it, but I'd love to get your thoughts on the matter. Every time I ask something of the dope-ass bear I'm blown away not just by how little I know but also that I wasn't even looking in the right direction, so if this is a stupid question I'm sure you'll let me know, lol.

EDIT: Thank you very much for your answers! Very informative.

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

After all, would the USSR have collapsed at all if there had been no Sino-Soviet split?

This is very hard to answer, first of all because it prompts the question of "at what point was the fate of the USSR sealed". I lean heavily away from the deterministic school of thought so I would place that point in the mid to late 80s.