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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

When Mao was right - which was most of the time - he was right.

But when he wrong… well…

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

This is a lack of cultural exposure tbh, I think he just geniunely didn't understand how bad American society really is.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

he also thought that the soviet union was the most imperialist force, on the same earth on which the usa also resided so... shrug-outta-hecks

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

This was also true of Marx and Engels, imo.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He understood extractive imperialism perfectly but not settler colonialism. What he did understand of it he got from the wildly different experience of French African settler colonialism.

It's like that difference between the apartheid and the genocidal state that's come up recently.

An apartheid state wants the oppressed groups to do all the work. A genocidal state just wants them gone.

The US is both, genocidal to First Nations, apartheid to non whites.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Look, man, the sparrows deserved it