I just realised, I can’t post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there’s a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

  • Commiejones@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    04·
    1 year ago

    Stalinism is a thing. Just like Leninism, Maoism and Dengism are things. Each of them is just a interpretation of Marxism. They each critique, adapt and expand on the previous iterations of Marxism to fit new conditions.

    • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I don’t really agree. Stalin’s thoughts can be summed up in his synthesis of Marx and Lenin. There isn’t a “Stalinism” separate from Marxism-leninism, but his contribution to MLism was vital.

      I also don’t really agree that Dengism is a thing. It’s a convenient shorthand Maoists use to describe modern China, but I don’t think Deng saw his contributions as separate from SWCC.

      Also also, I don’t think you can fairly characterize modern Maoism as Mao’s interpretation of MLism.

      All of these are very pedantic, so it’s very much ok if we don’t agree here! 😁