On 7/8/21 12:25 PM, Andrew Stewart wrote:
Part of the problem is that these debates fundamentally fail to acknowledge that the market socialist position, no matter how disrespected, is a valid one within the Communist political spectrum going back to the NEP. Tito, Khrushchev, Deng, Gorbachev, and successors in Vietnam and other Communist countries all derived their ideas from Bukharin and the Right Opposition. Stephen Cohen’s book was translated into Russian and Chinese and was read by their respective national parties. Now, do I necessarily like or endorse these developments? Do I love that these politics maintain or even exacerbate class stratification and exploitation? Not really. But the circular “No True Scotsman” discourse is really just so repetitive and it is more interesting to move beyond those polarities.
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