Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> >"If you don't hit it, it won't fall." Mao.
> >
> >I rather suspect that capitalism can be depended on periodically to tear
> >itself apart -- but it can also be depended on to put itself back
> >together
>
> Yup. As happened in Mao's own country over the last 20 years. What
> happened? Why didn't his revo stick?
>
Historians, after three or four or 20 more failed revolutions and 30
successful ones may be able to look back and make an intelligent guess.
Otherwise, I'm afraid your curiosity will go unquenched.
If I had to guess, I would say that the bulk of the support for the
revolution was not socialist but that aspect of it expressed in Mao's
first speech on Tenyan (w?) Square: China has stood up. There was a
socialist streak there, and I still regard Mao as a major Marxist
thinker that we can learn from if we abstract correctly, but the
essential drive was Chinese patriotism.
Carrol
