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>>18603634Very dumb.They split over the denounciation of a single man not because of ideological or policy differences.
>>18603634>>18603642They split because China didn't want to be considered as just another member of the Warsaw pact. The denunciation of Stalin was just a convenient narrative.
Stalin had supported the KMT and was not that happy with the CCP's victory as he correctly figured that China could become a rival for leadership of communism.
>>18603634It benefited the United States most of all because it enabled the State Department to work with Communists without the Soviet Union (America's main political enemy) getting in the way
>>18603634>Stalin dies>USSR: we love american now>China: NOOOOO. Fuck you.>Khrushchev dies>USSR: we hate america again >Mao dies>China: we love america now>USSR: NOOOOO. Fuck you.All according to marx. trust the plan.
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>>18603634Maoism is more in line with traditional Marxism (ie labor points instead of money) and liberalized USSR is more in line with changes necessary to keep the state going because Marxism is just not feasible as an ideology. That is the correct assessment.
>>18604310Maoism is completely against conventional Marxism. Marx's whole argument was that socialism was the inevitable next step in society after capitalism and industrialization.Mao said "fuck that, we can go straight from feudal peasantry to socialism."Deng reverted to orthodox Marxism by developing capitalism first, but now China's got a taste for being the global capitalist hegemon it doesn't look like they'll ever switch to socialism.
>>18604326Yes but by that metric no country ever had “existing socialism” outside of East Germany which was an industrialized power prewar. Any state can be Marxist if your definition is that it is capitalist and has a Communist party that one day will come to power and overthrow it.
>>18604331The difference being that the USSR fully believed in Marxist doctrine, which is why they at least nominally tried to implement capitalism (NEP).Mao was the first one to openly disavow it and say it didn't have to be as Marx said.
>>18604370You can reinterpret Marxism as “social democracy with red flags and Marx’s face everywhere” like 1970s USSR and modern CCP or Vietnam.
>>18603634it looked more or less like in pic this for me
