Timestamps:0:00 - Introduction4:55 - Deng Xiaoping Theory9:46 - Socialism with Chinese Characteristics14:54 - Why China Isn't Socialist - A Critique of Deng ...
Trav argues that Deng bastardized socialism, and that post-Mao leadership took class struggle out of Marxism.
If he’s both admitting that the accusations against China are complete fabrications and yet still insists that China is imperialist “inherently” then there isn’t much point listening to someone like this. They aren’t exercising dialectical materialism here, they’re being dogmatic and retroactively trying to find excuses to badmouth China instead of examining the society as a whole and what they’re actually doing.
If he’s both admitting that the accusations against China are complete fabrications and yet still insists that China is imperialist “inherently” then there isn’t much point listening to someone like this. They aren’t exercising dialectical materialism here, they’re being dogmatic and retroactively trying to find excuses to badmouth China instead of examining the society as a whole and what they’re actually doing.
He didn’t say “inherently”, Im gonna rewatch and find out what he said