• Juice@midwest.social
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      6 months ago

      Yeah calling China Maoist is pretty silly. They celebrate their former revolutionary leader but he was a lousy economist, and his last attempt to concentrate power in his revolutionary principles, the Cultural Revolution, was a shitshow. Mao allowed a peasant revolution that had been fomenting for 50 years to occur, overthrowing much of the old feudal elements, but

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      6 months ago

      is there a resource i can look into this with, searching the term “dengost” brings up medical, adding philosophy also serves strange results and adding china brings up dentistry in china :/

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        I misspelt sorry I meant Dengist. Named after Deng Xiaoping who was a leader of the ccp after Maos death and his political ideology is a big part of china’s current political landscape. I dont have any resources though I know he wrote a couple of books that will be a good resource.