Does Smith believe there’s ever been a socialist country? > Richard Smith comments: > > There’s nothing socialist about China and never has been. There’s no denying > that Mao Zedong organized and led a stunningly successful and novel national > liberation revolution, one that succeeded where both the bourgeois > nationalist revolution of 1912 and the workers revolution of 1925-27 had > failed. What’s more, his formula inspired and served as the model for the > entire wave of party-guerrilla army anti-colonial and/or nationalist > revolutions that swept the Third World from the end of WWII through the 1970s > in countries where working classes and bourgeoisies were too small or weak to > lead their own revolutions. The problem is, instead of socialism, those > substituionist party-armies installed new class societies — either > bureaucratic collectivism as in China, N. Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos etc. > or state capitalism as in Algeria, Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe and so on. >
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