There is always another election, another lesser evil, and another reason to defer the development of proletarian independence. That independence becomes a secondary concern, perpetually displaced by the immediate priorities of bourgeois electoralism.
It's a shame that economics as a field of study has come to be synonomous with the mere liberal ideological justification of capitalism, more so than other fields, due to oversaturation of neoclassicalism. While expected, I wish there were far more emerging Marxist economists.
a quite accurate quote from mao tse-tung:
“in some capitalist countries, communist parties are legally permitted to exist only so long as they do not endanger the fundamental interests of the bourgeoisie. once they go beyond this limit, they can no longer exist legally.”
I've said before, as have many others, that Dengists need to believe China is socialist, if not then they will believe socialism has failed. They can't meaningfully engage in material analysis because they can't risk their worldview shattering and depression hitting.
This is a very revealing tweet. The fact that they consider Maoists to be blackpilled, despite Maoists being the most revolutionary optimistic people around due to the actual existence of Maoist revolutions, because they would be blackpilled if they didn't have AES.