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Defending the PCP (maoismforthemasses.wordpress.com)

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I think it makes some points. Does anyone more knowledgeable on this subject have a different take?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Our Gonzalite friend is wrong about an number of things, but there is real criticism to be made about Deng radically increasing poverty by undercutting the systems installed under Mao that brought poverty to low levels. The "Chinese miracle" was in many respects solving problems that it itself caused and is a sort of liberal historical revisionism, though of course the more contemporary extreme poverty eradication initiative made real headway that was not made under Mao.