Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 12w

GLORY TO CHAIRMAN ZOHRAN

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Anonymous #3 12w

First of all, I was making a joke because the CPI(M) is a Maoist party, and second of all you don’t have to worship Mao as a person to agree with the political theory he wrote as far as methodology in politically organizing the masses. And thinking he had good tactics is what it means to be a Maoist, not uncritically worshipping everything he ever did.

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Anonymous #3 12w

Mao invented the idea of the Mass Line, which is an incredibly effective method of political organizing, I don’t think it takes worship of him as a person and defense of everything he did to acknowledge that.

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Anonymous #3 12w

I was a member of a Maoist organization for a while, and everything that we read by him and his close supporters made a lot of sense, but we never made it a point to act like his rule was mistake-free. Especially because there were policies of his that he admitted were poorly thought-out and implemented. The biggest legitimate criticism of Mao is that the Great Leap Forward was largely a failure, something which Mao himself and contemporary Maoists absolutely recognize.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 12w

I was with the organization because they were great on tenant organizing, making sure that tenants’ rights as stipulated in their leases were respected by landlords. They did an amazing job at organizing tenants’ unions and I wanted to be involved in that kind of work. Mao was a complex historical figure, but I will never shit on people doing good work inspired by his writings.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 12w

All dictators do “some good things” a few good acts do not wash out the bad or the millions killed. Praising ruthless authoritarians is something that I don’t see eye to eye with fellow leftists on. I also don’t agree with the idea of the mass line, it’s too assimilation based and wouldn’t work in populations with extremely diverse values and mindsets. The constant contact of government in people’s lives is objectively a great way of organization I agree with u on that

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Anonymous #3 12w

See I love this as a Marxist philosophy major because it is logical critique, shoutout you for not just parroting the same anticommunist talking points the state has given you!

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Anonymous #3 12w

And like I said, it’s bot about defending Mao as a person, it’s about the kind of work these organizations do. I was on their steering committee, I made my critiques known.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 12w

not* goddammit

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Anonymous #3 12w

And I think assimilationism is necessary in political organizing to a degree, you gotta lay out how your ideas benefit people, and get them to agree with you. That’s the point of organizing, to make people see the forest for everyone instead of focusing on just the individual trees.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 12w

I don’t have problems with some state involvement in the economy like regulation or healthcare which is where most anticommunist points come from, but state and ideological involvement at the personal level like Maoism and the assimilation aspect I hard disagree with. “And get them to agree with you” is a very slippery slope especially if it’s the state and the loyal masses (with the help of a personality cult like Mao) that have all the power that are the ones trying to make you agree

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 12w

It works very well in China with its millennia old culture of highly organized legalism and Confucianism under a strong central state ingrained in the values of the Han Chinese who also make up more then 90% of the population. It has always been an extremely unified, organized and powerful state.

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