I'd love to see those Hexbears have an answer for this!

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[–] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Mao was an anarchist for a minute and actually tried to set up a representational system where multiple anti-capitalist parties could hold office, but no liberals (it was during the Civil War and lasted about 5 minutes before getting replaced by a single party system)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Didn't mao write scathing critiques of anarchism after his experience with it?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    tbf he did seem to incorporate some anarchist principles into his theory and he wasn't some kind of anarchist-hunter as the head of the CPC, he just concluded that they were substantially in error (as he separately said of many ML contingents).

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