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[–] jack@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

https://1804books.com/products/chinas-revolution-and-the-quest-for-a-socialist-future

Read this a month or two ago. It's a good, brief overview of the subject and explicitly a defense of China as a socialist project.

[–] RedCheer@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago

This author is also part of a new four part podcast series on Guerrilla History:

https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/the-taiping-boxer-rebellions-w-ken-hammond-modern-chinese-history-pt-1

[–] Godsmackmyballs@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Thanks i wil check it out

[–] Juice@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Godsmackmyballs@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Very old stuff fucking interesting

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Note: its depressing af

It's written by a Trot, so of course it is, anything that succeeds must be denounced.

[–] Juice@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I didn't realize this was controversial. Are you intending to educate with a sufficiently sourced counter narrative, or are you trying to appear as a wretched, intellectually dishonest sectarian? At this moment I see a lot from the second category and nothing from the first.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't think you'd take it quite so gravely. It looks like it's fine enough when it's not talking about trot factions, where is conspicuously takes up much more florid language to describe the eternal tragedy of victimized trots, as is tradition.

[–] Juice@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

I asked for education, I got whatever weird non-marxist trip you are on.

Looking at your post history, I noticed this: https://hexbear.net/comment/4750389

If you weren't such a goofball, you'd have heard of uneven and combined development. Sectarian is the opposite of revolutionary.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago