Don't forget the CCP, with 95 million members at present. The Efurt program would not have helped them much, with over 90% peasants in a semi-colonial and semi-feudal order, with works only 2%. But they figured out protracted people's war and islands of 'new democracy' in liberated zones, a strategy to get them to power in 1949. Then afterwards, a complex class struggle to develop the country, still going on. But the CCP keeps its grip leading the way.
Well-taken. See my next post. To me the PRC doesn't fit Marx's historical theory. I need to learn more about it. To the best of my knowledge, colonial revolts were led by Marxists but did not much reflect Marx in terms of content or subsequent development in power. I suspect if more colonial revolutions had followed the Chinese model more closely, the world would be a very different place.
Vietnam probably comes close to the Chinese approach. Laos and the DPRK are special cases. Then we have Cuba. But taking a different path, and an electoral one, we now have Nepal and Sri Lanka, with Marxist parties in power, facing non-European realities.
Don't forget the CCP, with 95 million members at present. The Efurt program would not have helped them much, with over 90% peasants in a semi-colonial and semi-feudal order, with works only 2%. But they figured out protracted people's war and islands of 'new democracy' in liberated zones, a strategy to get them to power in 1949. Then afterwards, a complex class struggle to develop the country, still going on. But the CCP keeps its grip leading the way.
Well-taken. See my next post. To me the PRC doesn't fit Marx's historical theory. I need to learn more about it. To the best of my knowledge, colonial revolts were led by Marxists but did not much reflect Marx in terms of content or subsequent development in power. I suspect if more colonial revolutions had followed the Chinese model more closely, the world would be a very different place.
Vietnam probably comes close to the Chinese approach. Laos and the DPRK are special cases. Then we have Cuba. But taking a different path, and an electoral one, we now have Nepal and Sri Lanka, with Marxist parties in power, facing non-European realities.
ML orgs still can kick ass
The continued operation of artisan production inside the transactional market place
Requires a firm grip
On the durability yes tenacity
Of petite bourgeois culture
Even when total sublation exists
At the technical level
At the foundation of it all
Transactional markets themselves
Are booming away
In once red china
Long since October led on
to the first 5 year plan
Us devotees of Diamatics
Are hardly surprised by that
Marx or Mao wouldn't be either
Beware
Recipes for
Cook shops of the future