Mao Zedong’s cadres were clean,
The Gang of Four’s cadres were brave,
Hua Guofeng’s cadres were nowhere to be seen,
Deng Xiaoping’s cadres are all millionaires.
37 years ago today, we remember June Fourth.
If I get to be a dictator...
Yk scratch that
If I just ever get to a position of somewhat authority
I'll make sure Gujjus start their lives inside a prison and then prove their worth to get out!
If I get to be a dictator...
Yk scratch that
If I just ever get to a position of somewhat authority
I'll make sure Gujjus start their lives inside a prison and then prove their worth to get out!
1.4 billion ppl
Avg income of 60-80% below 4LPA
Now ur left with around 400M
Exclude ones with sub standard education now u have 250M
Thats 18% of ppl
All that social mobility u talkin abt happens within that 18%
Its not an equaliser
Its musical chairs where 80% cannot take part
Not explicit evidence but pretty much true and a valid assumption. Mao was right to fear such after the USSR forcefully removed Mátyás Rákosi from power in 🇭🇺 (and subsequently demonstrated they were willing to invade) and interfered in choosing a successor to Beirut in 🇵🇱
All of this slandering the PRC gets about making a deal with USA gets disproven when two things are considered:-
> USSR by the late 60s literally had nukes pointed at Beijing
> Example of a previous tactical alliance with an enemy by Communists already exists in the MR Pact
All of this slandering the PRC gets about making a deal with USA gets disproven when two things are considered:-
> USSR by the late 60s literally had nukes pointed at Beijing
> Example of a previous tactical alliance with an enemy by Communists already exists in the MR Pact
Has anyone who subscribes to the Andersonian Anglo-Sonderweg thesis about Britain, been able to explain why political consensus in radically different institutional systems like France, Germany and Britain, are convergent, as opposed to divergent?
This is a good rebuttal to the idea that oil companies backed the Iraq War but it misses the strategic analysis. The US and UK invaded Iraq to break OPEC. The new regime freely extracted oil which kept prices low, thus stabilizing global oil markets at a low price level.
The thing about the Hungarian "revolution", read: counter revolution, is that even if they weren't backed by the West, they were backed and trained by MI6, is that their demands were reactionary.