Whatever the revisionist sins of Khruschev and Deng, this doesn’t explain why the masses did not rise up to defend the system they associated with Stalin and Mao. Instead in each case they welcomed the turn away from that system to domestic and foreign markets and private capital. The initial result was a disasterous depression in the fSU and a growth explosion in the PRC which improved the living standards of tens of millions.
Charlie does not realize it, but his focus on the “crisis of leadership” in both the USSR and China corresponds to the Trotskyist explanation of why the working classes in the West as well as in China and the fSU have not long since overthrown their reformist “misleaders” and taken power in their own name. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#32873): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/32873 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/108969231/21656 -=-=- 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/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
