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Anybody know any good books about china's communist history ? (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://1804books.com/products/chinas-revolution-and-the-quest-for-a-socialist-future

Read this a month or two ago. It's a good, brief overview of the subject and explicitly a defense of China as a socialist project.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Thanks i wil check it out

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

My book club reads this one https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/isaacs/1938/tcr/index.htm Note: its depressing af

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Very old stuff fucking interesting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Note: its depressing af

It's written by a Trot, so of course it is, anything that succeeds must be denounced.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I didn't realize this was controversial. Are you intending to educate with a sufficiently sourced counter narrative, or are you trying to appear as a wretched, intellectually dishonest sectarian? At this moment I see a lot from the second category and nothing from the first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I didn't think you'd take it quite so gravely. It looks like it's fine enough when it's not talking about trot factions, where is conspicuously takes up much more florid language to describe the eternal tragedy of victimized trots, as is tradition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I asked for education, I got whatever weird non-marxist trip you are on.

Looking at your post history, I noticed this: https://hexbear.net/comment/4750389

If you weren't such a goofball, you'd have heard of uneven and combined development. Sectarian is the opposite of revolutionary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I haven't got to it myself but I hear good things about Wen Teijun's Ten Crises: The Political Economy of China's Development (1949-2020)