You guys are all much more well-read on communism than me, so I ask based on this quote:
As a reminder, the Sino-Soviet split occurred due to an ideological fracture in the Communist bloc whereby Mao accused the Soviets of being “revisionists” after Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization and his embrace of “peaceful coexistence” with the West.
Now that the ex-Soviet countries are pretty much all capitalist oligarchies and China is, well whatever it is but hugely successful and prosperous, is there a consensus about the Sino-Soviet split? I mean yea it sucks that it had to go down like that but can we say in general that Mao was right about that?
I know it’s just an arbitrary point in time (as now) and that there were and are loads of factors at play so this is perhaps a simplistic way of framing it, but I’d love to get your thoughts on the matter. Every time I ask something of the dope-ass bear I’m blown away not just by how little I know but also that I wasn’t even looking in the right direction, so if this is a stupid question I’m sure you’ll let me know, lol.
EDIT: Thank you very much for your answers! Very informative.
100% Mao was right
But also China did really dumbass shit because of the split. I’m not really convinced that China only did that shit because of the split though, I think they might’ve had serious analytical errors as well.
Agreed, siding with Cambodia, the US over the USSR, all of these contributed to a dramatic undermining of socialism globally in a time that should have had unity.
the cool thing about socialism is learning from your mistakes. in the US we just repeat the same mistakes over and over again repeatedly and never admit they were mistakes.