One exceptional doctrine that has alienated us Marxists-Leninists from Maoism is that which commands us "to surround the cities from the countryside". Such gnome has bored so much insignificance amongst us that we cease even to leaf through the pages of Mao's Red Book -don't judge a book by its cover- to search for clues or erudition to beget raison d'etre for assimilation. Maoism has degenerated into some form of carbuncle that to draw conclusions on its esteemable value is slight heresy.
Compared to the economic scars of October Revolution of 1917, those of the Cultural Revolution appear to be more minimal. And a state which had totally isolated itself form the international community (China recalled all but one of its ambassadors during the Cultural Revolution) is now reasserting itself with an added confidence drawn from hydrogen weapons and a ballistic missile capability. Furthermore, China's claim to be a beacon of world revolution finds surprisingly strong echoes in political turmoil on university campuses around the world where Chairman Mao is a symbolic leader for the most alienatted of a generation of political activists.
Like Cuba, China has appeard to be a durable member of the Socialist Camp. We are all complicit participants to fortify this camp. This membership which only twenty to forty years ago seemed to be virtually in a state of civil war has apparently pulled itself together and has rebuilt a democratic political order.
Akin to Stallin's New Economic Order, the GReat Leap Forward had also generated an economic crisis which took far lesser number of years to repair; and also akin, the once monolithic Chinese Communist Party appeared less decimated by a premature succession crisis precipitated by conflict over policies of aging Party Chairman Mao-tse-Tung than those of Josef Stalin.
> Agrarian reform was one of the hallmarks of Mao's successful
> Cultural Revolution. Of course, nobody had envisioned Maoism
> or Chinese communism in that one can be assured that its
> application will be a one-sure-shot formula. Go and travel
> to China today. You'll surely admire their rice terraces,
> abundant noodles, government day-care centres, shopping
> malls, etc. I have never heard a Chinese communist party
> cadre boasting his country's 1 trillion dollar surplus
> budget. US is negative 800 billion. Canada is negative 500
> billion.
>
> Long live Mao tse Tung! Long live the Communist Party of
> China! Long live President Hu! More power to the Chinese!
> They will rule the world!!
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> > What is the CPUSA's position on Stalin and Mao's
> > contributions to Dialectical Materialism? I know that
> the
> > International Publishers published Stalin's Historical
> > Materialism and Mao's On Contradiction. Of course its
> hard
> > to separate faulty practice from correct theory. On
> > Contradiction in my opinion is an important contribution
> to
> > Marxist theory and according to Deng Xiaoping, and the
> > CPUSA's sister party in China, Mao misapplied his own
> > theory in the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap
> Forward.
> > That certainly is not unprecedented among natural
> > scientists. The CPC and CPUSA are certainly correct in
> > condemning Mao's great mistakes, but the CPC does not
> throw
> > Mao's philosophical contributions out the window and I
> don;t
> > think the CPUSA should either.
> >
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