Alessandro Russo talks of the "egalitarian politics" of Mao. But I think Mao was a bureaucrat, even if a somewhat unusual one.
There was a personality cult, whereby Mao was treated as infallible by his followers. This prevented a free and democratic discussion of the way forward for China. Mao's attempts to force the pace of change led at times to disastrous results. http://links.org.au/node/2349 Chris Slee ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Roger Kulp <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, 4 July 2021 8:16 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [marxmail] Chinese Communist Party: a party of workers or capitalists? – Michael Roberts Blog This was linked in Chris Gilbert's latest article about Venezuela at Counterpunch, but it is definitely worth reading on its own. Not only for futher insight of the China-Soviet split, and the Cultural Revolution, but more importantly Mao's fears about the defeat of socialism, and the restoration of capitalism to China, which I was completely unaware of. http://crisiscritique.org/ccmarch/russo.pdf -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9667): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/9667 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/83914368/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
