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Old 04-19-2012, 11:51 PM   #38
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You seem to be misguided about what communism is, let alone Maoism which is even less understood.
'Has modern China betrayed the ideas of the founders?' That's sort of a question that doesn't make sense in the Chinese context and is mired by American culture. Both Mao and Xiaoping were huge leaders in the Great March. There was no ideological consensus among the leaders of the Chinese Civil War, so which founder are we talking about?
Has modern China betrayed the Cultural Revolution, though? Yes. Completely.

'The communist way is basically the concept of central economic planning....so yes China is still communist.'
Uh, no, the communist way is NOT central economic planning. You're new here, so I understand if you don't know this, but there's nothing inherent in communism to demand central planning.
The ARE some Marxist forms that demand central panning and in each tendency it goes to different extents, but the funny thing is that if there is one thing one cannot attribute to Maoism it's precisely the idea of central planning. Centralization is antipodal to Maoism.

Finally, Maoism never wanted isolationism. That's the whole point of its Three Worlds Theory, that the Third World should unite against both American and Soviet imperialism.
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