• spujb@lemmy.cafeOP
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    5 months ago

    ooh ty, can you provide a resource to understand the distinction or if someone else can corroborate, i can edit the title

    im not educated enough to understand this but very willing to learn

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          5 months ago

          To be honest its a Frankenstein’s Monster of a political philosophy so maoist maybe too narrow of a term, maybe itll fit with the 1989 Tiananmen square protests but not sure. Not a historian just know China isn’t cookie cutter socialist/Marxist/Leninist/Stalinist…

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              Yeah calling China Maoist is pretty silly. They celebrate their former revolutionary leader but he was a lousy economist, and his last attempt to concentrate power in his revolutionary principles, the Cultural Revolution, was a shitshow. Mao allowed a peasant revolution that had been fomenting for 50 years to occur, overthrowing much of the old feudal elements, but

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              is there a resource i can look into this with, searching the term “dengost” brings up medical, adding philosophy also serves strange results and adding china brings up dentistry in china :/

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                I misspelt sorry I meant Dengist. Named after Deng Xiaoping who was a leader of the ccp after Maos death and his political ideology is a big part of china’s current political landscape. I dont have any resources though I know he wrote a couple of books that will be a good resource.

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        5 months ago

        it isnt marxist only if you are taking just the ussr as a reference point for marxism.