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As comrade transcendentalempire said, a big part of the argument put forward makes sense, quite a few of the premises hold up, Deng fucked shit up quite a bit, but the recent direction that xi is setting are much more hopeful and where I think it gets dishonest is the implications that current day China is equivalent to Deng's China, which I don't believe it to be, recently China gave a lot of support to the DRPK, and its striving(with the help of the BRICS) to lift the commercial blockades against Cuba and Venezuela. So yeah China did some backtracking on the long struggle towards the ultimate goals but to think that everything China does is capitalism in disguise is absolutely untrue. The part that makes me so sad is how close we are with people who think things like this, like I know the points we disagree makes our lines incompatible, but a lot of what we think to he and good thing and a bad thing is similar, and it breaks my heart to see such a rift (at times quite hostile one) between us, it is a sad issue that needs tending to, although the solution seems quite elusive
How did Deng “fuck shit up?”
In what reasonable way could China have amassed any sort of capital and standing without the actions that deng took? If deng didn’t play ball with western capital, China would have been treated the way North Korea or the Soviet Union were/are treated and they would have been starved until submission and destroyed.
Dengs concessions built the entire bridge that Xi can now cross and push towards socialism.
Pfft, get outta here with that "history is a complex multi-layered tapestry" bullshit. History is like a Paradox strategy game, if your country gets a bad leader, with bad stats, things will be bad until they are replaced. China should've save scummed until they got a replacement for Mao with high stats across the board smh.
Mao should have Min-Maxed his civ factories till 1960 then requested military access to the Soviet Union to place a 2 width Chinese cavalry unit in each Soviet city.
They then could justify a war goal on socialist Poland in order to not raise world tension to much and because justifying on puppets causes the Soviets AI to not mobilize troops.
Then you can save scum the Sino-Soviet War, and instantly capitulate the entire Warsaw Pact and annex all the territory to trigger the 5th internationale event and create the Mega China 100 Empire.
This way you can avoid the Deng event from firing and you can get a juche necromancy corpse of Mao to lead the new eternal Chinese Communist Empire.