CriticalResist8

that's good of him at least!

The USSR has made a number of mistakes in foreign policy:

• wanting to apply their own methods of revolution to China rigidly (both in organization and warfare),
• urging China to wait for a more opportune moment for revolution,
• urging the same of DPRK,
• overly funding communist parties to the point they had no reason to try and find other avenues of funding. When funds stopped, all of these parties almost died and most of them turned eurocommunist to retain dues and membership.
• pushing of a soviet theoretical line, which had the effect of teaching only one method of revolution/marxist thought.
• getting pulled into "proxy" conflicts (I don't really like the implications of 'proxy' but I digress), which opened the way for color revolutions to take hold.

As the first successful socialist experiment we could argue, and I do argue that, that it's not like there was a lot of textbooks to pull from. They applied what they knew that worked and everything else was still to be determined, and they did a lot of things right too. Furthermore I also think the world situation around that time was very different; Asia was freeing itself following the defeat of Japan in ww2, there were a number of socialist revolutions all around the same time in the 50s, then in the 60s Africa struggled for independence.

And yet we see that all of this was not enough to defeat the imperial hegemony, so what went wrong? And why repeat the mistakes of the past? We see that it wasn't always correct to 'just' follow the USSR. These mistakes are not entirely the USSR's fault, they're just dialectical. They exist in contradiction and as one element grows the other grows as well. And likewise not everything was of their own making, they were after all constantly under siege from the United States.

Probably nobody thought the USSR would ever be able to be dismantled. And yet it was, and it wreaked havoc in the soviet republics, the DPRK, Cuba. If the PRC were ever to fall, what would remain of world socialism? Are we today in a situation where it would not lead to the post-1991 periods other countries saw? I think so yes, because the PRC has picked a different direction from the USSR in that regard, but I'm presenting the question.

And yet with these mistakes, so to speak, I still support the USSR and would never speak ill of it publicly. My criticisms of their policies are to notice the pothole and mark it clearly so people coming after me can avoid it. Capitalism itself was not established overnight; it took decades of struggle and centuries overall to reach the level it has. Even today there are some countries that have retained their royal family after compromise with the feudal lords.

People like empanada are "neither washington nor beijing" today (he has called China imperialist and 'communist in name only') and would have been "neither washington nor moscow" back in the 60s no matter what they might say they think of the USSR today with hindsight. But where do these words lead new comrades? Imagine just starting to read Marx and your group tells you there is no such thing as a socialist country today and everything sucks, what are you even struggling for at that point? To be right? To flex? To teach newcomers that communism has been thoroughly defeated in the 90s, and we have reached the end of history?

I have no idea but it's a certified banger lol

70% bad, 30% empanada

More like 'Westerners when you ask them to do anything'.

Servility in the imperial core is very special. We express it by complaining loudly until someone takes notice, and if they don't, it's their fault for not hearing us. Learned helplessness from centuries of liberalism.

Complaining on the internet about a country that does not even speak your language will not shame them into acting the way you want them to. All it will do is create more anti-communists and give arguments for color revolution. Of which 3 attempts have been made in China in just the past 8 years, and more are brewing.

Like most of his audience is statistically Statesians. He should be telling them ways of organizing shipments for Cuba instead of trying to get a dunk in for the twitter likes. There are routinely convoys that organize shipments to Cuba, mostly food medication and basic goods. Did he post about them? I did.

People like him do this very deliberately. Their hatred of AES outdoes their irritation at US imperialism. I mean what else do you call it when you have all these accounts posting endlessly about China trying to influence public opinion? They never mention that 38% of Cuba's daytime electricity is produced by Chinese-provided solar farms, for example. They want China to do everything everywhere all at once when that is precisely a factor that led to the dismantling of the soviet union.

Some of them are even the same people that will say Cuba was a 'sugar colony' of the USSR.

Beware: going down this path of always finding fault within things you can't act upon will only lead you to ultra-leftism. He's the living proof.

Yes, and the trade with the entity was that China got US miltech in the 90s (when it was still the top provider in the world) when no one else would trade it with them bc of sanctions and in exchange the colony gets AC units and some agriculture. Basically consumer goods.

I'm not going to do a good trade bad trade comparison because that's meaningless but this was the historical reason for the normalization of relations with the zionist entity and the exporting country does get the most benefit out of it. There is a strict ban on exporting weapons or anything that could be made into weapons.

I can't be in their mind but China is probably worried that if they completely change course it will only alienate them from the ties they've built in the region. Most countries in the region have normalized relations with the occupation, what is China supposed to do when they inherited a situation they had no hand in forming? Instead of yelling at them on english websites the CPC doesn't read we should be demanding that our governments send Cuba oil.