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@rhiolit.bsky.social

incidentally Mao was successful in establishing himself as head of the Chinese communists because he recognized that 1920s-30s China was an agrarian society and therefore the revolution wasn’t going to come from the barely-existent urban proletariat but rural peasant farmers

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23/10/26, 2:53 am5 reposts22 likes

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@rhiolit.bsky.social

and that therefore the existing party leadership’s doctrinaire Marxist-Leninist focus on taking cities was bad strategy. so, uh, the rigid theory people were on the wrong side of that too