Can't wait to see the discourse among the Twitter Left over whether this vague statement is a defense of Maoism or Dengismhttps://twitter.com/DavidWright_7/status/1232140197271408646 …
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Neither did Mao, so presumably Deng wins by default
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Mao's whole tenure as leader of the CCP is an upward arc out of the extreme poverty following the devastation of WWII, which many true believers do give him credit for, even with the unfortunate downward blips along the way
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OK, good point. But he doesn't seem to be thinking very specifically about any particular Chinese policy or government so much as the general recent history.
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It's oddly ideologically-agnostic for him - hate the authoritarianism, praise the success. It's the kind of thing that you'd expect for someone praising Pinochet's Chile, or pre-democracy South Korea.
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