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It looks like the European capitalist class has not learned from the past; instead of being destroyed by the German capitalist class as during WW2, it can be destroyed by the Russian capitalist class. It has been kicked out by the US capitalist class, too
The process of nationalization was started in England by the Manchesterists, and then it was copied by other nationalist classes, but the KMT was able to initiate a longer and wider process of nationalization because they had more economic control than the Maoists.
Nationalization is a capitalist process; it is not a socialist process, as the left-wingers have always propagated, in the same manner that national liberation is a capitalist process, the liberated ones are the national bourgeoisie, and the best example is the Viet Cong.
There was a long process of struggles between the so-called Chinese “communists” and among the Maoists for power and economic control. Like in China, Maoism became a student movement
The works of Mao Zedong ( Mao Tse Tung ) do not describe deeply the process of the Chinese society; and Mao did not have any deep knowledge and understanding about Marxism and socialism, his followers created the so-called Mao Tse Tung thought.
The real facts have been written by outside sources, including Enver Hoxha, who said that Maoism was modern Confucianism
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/imp_rev/imp_ch6.htm
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Many among the national bourgeoisie, very weak in the 1930s, increasingly preferred the Red areas, if they could reach them, and moved to the Japanese areas if not, rather than stay in the KMT, the same study said. I don’t know if it was true.
It was the foreign bourgeoisie that preferred Chiang, although he personally despised them. They had initially feared him as “The Red General.”
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The main ally of Chiang was the US capitalist class, who called them imperialist, and he declared himself an anti-imperialist like the Japanese and Italian capitalist class it does shows that anti-imperialism can be used by the right-wingers and the left-wingers. Chiang retreated to Taiwan with the main purpose of taking over the mainland China territory. The whole process is a history of rivalry among capitalists
Doesn’t one of the stars on the flag of the Chinese state represent the “national bourgeoisie”?
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It does, and the four stars represent the four Chinese social classes, including the so-called petty bourgeoisie. The CPC allied with the bourgeoisie class
The Chinese Revolution was a peasant revolution that led to the establishment of a capitalist society, similar to the Bolshevik coup and the French bourgeois revolution, with the only difference that feudalism did not exist in China. It was what Marx called the Asiatic mode of production
In Cuba, one sector of the bourgeoisie class also supported the guerrillas, and it was also a bourgeois nationalist revolution, similar to the rest of the nationalist revolutions that have taken place in Latin America
Lenin supported the theory of the permanent revolution because it applies to economically backward societies.
We have an article that says that Bolshevism is a combination of Kautsky’s theory of the vanguard party and Trotsky’s theory of the permanent revolution
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ste finch
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Adri/Citizen, Thanks for the info you posted, but please be aware that I didn’t post the GT article for any historical or theoretical acuity – I put it there because GT is a CCP mouthpiece – so the article should be useful in countering the nonsense usually spouted about ‘socialist’ China
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We know it was your intention; we all do that around here. I am always publishing articles from different sourcesEverything is written in this book:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/. Foundations of Leninism by Joseph StalinProbably, Vladimir Lenin wouldn’t have created a concept known as Marxism-Leninism; he did not want to be mummified either; he wanted to be placed next to his mother. In some way, Lenin sincerely recognized some of his mistakes, he also recognized that the vanguard party was just a temporary measure applicable to Russia, and he was not going to edit and publish again What is to be done?
Without the Soviet Union, socialism/communism would have been in a much better state in our time. The concept of socialism/communism was distorted by them and by the Western capitalists; any reformer is called socialist or communist, any third-world dictator, guerrilla fighter, or terrorist is called communist. With the emergence of right-wing populists, the situation is even worseThat article from Global Times does not express the real historical situation. The so-called privatization in China is an ancient process. ( In this journal, some of whose members were Maoists ), has written several articles about the privatization in China, which they call neoliberalism.
The privatization is part of the so-called Four Modernizations, initiated after the elimination of the so-called Gang of Four, Some Maoists call it a party coup done by Deng Xiaoping
https://www.communistvoice.org/19cChinaHinton.html
https://www.communistvoice.org/17cChina.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Modernizations
The RCPUSA, which is a Maoist organization, has already written about the long process of Chinese privatization
The temporary ending of this conflict is going to be similar to the ending of World War 2. All imperialist and capitalist powers are going to distribute among themselves the Ukrainian territory and its resources; in the meantime, thousands of human beings have died defending the so-called homeland
Lenin was not a communist.
Leninism is not a communist trend
Marxism-Leninism is an incompatible hybrid created by Joseph Stalin.
The only Russian leader who had a real conception of socialism/communism was Julius Martov.
The soviet leaders never claimed that they were building a communist society.
The whole period of more than 75 years they were developing state capitalism.
The whole history of the USRR as a socialist society it is just a lie
The soviet dictatorship did not start with Joseph Stalin; it started during the time of Lenin and Trotsky, and Stalin is a continuation of that process. The difference between Stalin and Trotsky was based on the management style, there were no essential differences. Even more, Stalin had a clear understanding of what socialism means
To establish that system, a ruling class was needed, and socialism/communism is going to be a classless and stateless society based on the democratic possession of the means of production, democratically administered by the world working class
An example of leftists sharing Trump’s delusion about tariffs being used to resurrect manufacturing industry in the home country
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Some members of the left and their organizations instead of needing eyeglasses, they need binoculars. Tariffs have produced the laid off of thousands of workers, and many governments and capitalists have used the tariff as a pretext to lay off workers, impose heavy burden on the ones that they have kept, and many austerity plan have been implemented. Capitalism will continue operating in the same way it was before and after the implementation of the tariff. Tariffs and taxations are issues that do not concern to the world working class, inter-capitalists disputes are issues that do not concern to the working class either. The main concern of the working class is socialism
Gustavo Gutierrez
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/23/gustavo-gutierrez-champion-of-christian-liberation-theology-diesWhile Gutiérrez is the central figure, other influential theologians associated with liberation theology include Juan Luis Segundo (Uruguay), Jon Sobrino and Ignacio Ellacuria (El Salvador), and Leonardo Boff (Brazil).
Even Trotsky was not a workers leader, or a Marxist theoretician, and his main thesis is only applicable to economic backward countries which also conducts toward state capitalism as the Soviets did, and the Bolsheviks adopted his thesis of the permanent revolution, and it is an anti marxist theory
One of his best biographers known as Isaac Deutscher wrote that the ascent of Joseph Stalin to power was because Trotsky lost popularity within the Russian working class, and curiously Stalin knew the real definition of socialism/communism and Trotsky never defined it properly.
All followers of Trotskyism have been apologist of state capitalism and the dictatorship of the vanguard party to lead and Lenin himself did recognize that it was only applicable to Russia, and at the end of his life Lenin also recognized that there was not any difference between the bureaucracy of the soviet state and the old czarist state
Man regulates and the market dispose.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/g-s1-59342/global-markets-react-trump-tariffs-pause
Global market react to Trump tariff pause.
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U.S. stocks slumped on Thursday, giving up a chunk of the spectacular gains seen in the previous session, as some of the relief after President Trump paused many of his tariffs started to dissipate.In this photo, President Trump stands outside the White House with a yellow race car and several race car drivers and team owners.
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Trump says he will pause tariff hikes for 90 days, but not for China
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended down 2.5% after surging close to 8% on Wednesday. The S&P 500 fell more than 3%, while the Nasdaq lost just over 4% after each index had also soared a day earlier.The declines on Thursday underlie how much uncertainty still remains about what Trump will do about tariffs given that he left others in place, including a 10% tariff on most countries. He also ratcheted up his tariffs on China to 145% so far in this term when including all that he has already imposed.
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The president of the USA might be the most powerful man over the earth, but he can not control the market system, it is the opposite way, the market system control and regulate all leaders
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/10/alfb-a10.html
The announcement yesterday by US President Trump of a 90-day pause in the implementation of his so-called “reciprocal tariffs,” ostensibly to allow negotiations to take place, is another expression of the deepening economic and financial crisis of American imperialism and its state.
The move came amid growing signs that the entire financial system—in particular the US Treasury market—was just days or even hours away from a meltdown on the scale of the crises of September 2008 and March 2020, or potentially even greater.
