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Hitler was malding too, like depressed and pissed off that his generals underestimated the soviet resistance.

That is deeply fucked up. Good job on them for cracking down on it. Everyone in burgerland would be screaming "but muh freeeeeedom".

Dick Gregory, based US activist who has been right about everything since the 1960s. He died fairly recently.

His book 'the divide' is really good.

Ultra-lefts love appointing kings for some reason, and think socialism is when one guy controls everything, and hand picks a sucessor. Look at the history of int'l trotskyist movement squabbles, or their historical attachment to the myth that "Lenin appointed trotsky king of the USSR".

To claim that SWCC is "pragmatic, and not Marxist", typifies the ultra-left stances of most western leftist orgs, in their standard condemnation of actually existing communist formations on the basis of a selective and dogmatic interpretation of Marxism, and their obsession with martyrdom and failure. PSL should have dropped this "gang of four" leftism a decade ago.

The biggest difference IMO, is the focus on integrating rather than de-linking with the world economy. The PRC and the USSR were both demonized cold war targets, so why did one thrive, and the other stagnate?

With the Deng Xiaoping era and the opening up to the world economy, we have the answer. The focus shifted away from a the ideological struggle that exemplified the Cultural Revolution. The lesson learnt there: you cannot better people's material conditions, and end poverty with ideological struggle, or isolationism.

The USSR, through historical inertia, and an emphasis on siege socialism, demonstrated an unwillingness to pursue opening up. Deng Xiaoping by contrast stated: "we don't need to be afraid to open the window just because a few flies might get in... The fresh air will do us good, and the flies are nothing to we can't handle."

Since then, the focus shifted to economic construction and technological advancements gained via an open market system with the west: the superiority of socialism over capitalism must come through it's better development of the productive forces, and better ability to feed your people.

The USSR had to use spycraft to get tainted western microchips already a few years old. Yet since the 1980s the west is falling over themselves to build factories and export tech to China.

There's a lot of nuance to this strategy, because integration with the west almost always means getting caught in the low-wage-trap, but SWCC organized this bargain in their favor. They traded limited wage exploitation, in exchange for long-term technological expertise... A strategy that's clearly been paying off.

Some more resources here: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#is-china-state-capitalist

The PRC has a strict policy of non-interference, informed by china's long history of live and let live with its neighbors, their own historical experiences and foreign-policy miss-steps, as well as in-depth study of the factors that lead to the downfall of the USSR, of which the arms race sucking tons of labor and vital resources away from other important economic sectors was a main reason.

They rightly view military involvement and weaponry as extremely dangerous traps, that can spiral out of control quickly. And unless you're using your own troops like Cuba did in Angola, you're going to lose control of that weaponry.

Africa has seen so much unecessary bloodshed because the west and Israel armed the Apartheid powers, and various other reactionary parties in the 70s-80s, most of those weapons being used to kill innocent people.

The west wants to keep Africa unstable, ruled by petty warlords and tearing itself apart. The CPC desires a stable Africa focused on economic development and construction.

It's not a strict dogmatism to never get involved ever, but a waryness informed by history.

There's a spectre haunting twitter

The Japanese imperial military machine was responsible for those atrocities. Not the toddlers and grandmas the US bombed.

Poland does have the greatest piano composer of all-time: Chopin.

edit: oops I see he was mentioned below.