Haz Debates a Maoist on China & the Cultural Revolution is an Infrared clip by Talonsight.[1]
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- Maoist argues that China isn't socialist because it's not a Dictatorship of the Dictatorship
- GPCR - what does this stand for?
- "How does China stop the bureaucratization of the Party?"
- Bourgeoise revolutions are liquidationality
- Haz argues that the Cultural Revolution was a revolution against bourgeois revolutionary radicalism
- Haz defends the Cultural Revolution but is trying to square with its legacy
- Revolutions cannot only be political in nature
- Cultural Revolution was primarily about negation of the past
- China still is going through economic revolutions and a populist wave against corrupt officials, this is the accomplishment of the Xi Jinping era
- China isn't putting an end to the revolutionary process, it's developing new forms of revolutionary development
- Haz disagrees with the Communist Party of China on the question of the Cultural Revolution, Haz supports the CR, whereas the CPC rejects it
- Maoist argues that Haz's argument is deterministic
- Maoist brings up the Lin Biao incident
- Haz replies that when Deng Xiaoping puts aside ideology he accomplishes something that the USSR and Mao's China were unable to do (unleash the productive forces)
- The Soviet-style bureaucracy developed into mediocrity and poor performance in the economic sphere
- Maoist argues that modern China has abandoned the ideological struggle
- Maoist argues that modern China has abandoned the idea that man is the creative agent in history (as Juche beautifully posits)
- Maoist claims that Deng was a fascist