listening to Spence on the chinese revolutionary wars now i can't keep track of what's going on. it is a complete clusterfuck. chiang is flitting between leftists, the KMT has its own factions, lenin and trotsky are trying to control everything and fighting one another
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one thing that is striking to me is the extent to which the governing structures of china had been so completely degraded that almost surely you would expect something very bad to happen absolute disaster even before the fighting started, massive fragmentation
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another thing is the extent to which communists actually seem to believe the letter of marxism communists are actually setting strategy partly based on marx's Grand Theory of Societies and Revolutions rather than just being opportunistic
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this seems risible in retrospect like, do any communists today actually believe that there's some kind of mass proletariat that (i) likes them and (ii) is going to rise up and seize the american government? but apparently early 20C communists were high on their own supply wild
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he will be so disappointed before he turns 40
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