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How the fuck do people read texts like 'On Practice', 'Oppose Book Worship', and 'On the correct handling of Contradictions among people' and still spout dogmatic views on China? (lemmygrad.ml)
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From Engels to Lenin to Mao, all have expressed their sheer repulsion towards dogmatism. Mao has even written one text after another and spoken in multiple meetings about battling this problem in the party. He, along with other materialists, has made it clear that the Markets are a historical category that have existed since before capitalism. Capitalism =/= Commerce.

Then how is it some Marxists who claim to have read theory call China capitalist and label its supporters as 'Dengists'? Socialists created the fastest growing economy ever observed in human history that lifted hundreds of millions of people out of absolute poverty. And now these dogmatists wanna give its credit to capitalism!?

Their entire prejudice is based on the misconception that Deng Xioping did not follow on Mao's thoughts. Deng literally heeded Maoist ideas such as "Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend" and "The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant". He built the productive forces for the Chinese people based on—not in spite of—the continuing influence of Mao Zedong’s ideology. Now Xi Jingping is continuing both of their legacies.

So people who make such non-materialist and often times liberal critique of the Chinese economy have either not read theory or did not develop any dialectical and historical materialism to understand the theory!

As Marxists and materialists, it is our responsibility to confront these reductionist elements in our movement and bring back the pendulum at its correct course when it swings too much to either sides; right-wing revisionism or left-wing dogmatism.

"No investigation, no right to speak." - Mao Zedong

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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It is the difference between simply reading a text and actually understanding it. Also, many of the ultras who denounce China have not actually read that much theory. Often the opposition is essentially vibes-based: markets = capitalism = bad. It is a knee-jerk response. And partly for some it's simple chauvinism.

It's hard for Westerners (and those who are immersed in western culture) to break through the "China bad", "China = enemy" conditioning. It's a very similar thing we see with Russia. They will acknowledge that Ukraine is backed by NATO and full of Nazis, but Russia is still "the bad guy", Russia is still "a threat".

Why? Because everyone around them, their educational system, their media, their peers, etc. told them so.