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.
It always goes back to western chauvinism in the end. China is doing something different to how these western ultras think is the One True Correct Path of Socialism, so they find excuses as to why China isn’t really socialist because they aren’t following the advice of an enlightened westerner who knows what real socialism looks like. A lot of these people claim to be third worldists as well, but are extremely dismissive of the voices of anyone in the third world who disagrees with them.
It always goes back to western chauvinism in the end. China is doing something different to how these western ultras think is the One True Correct Path of Socialism, so they find excuses as to why China isn’t really socialist because they aren’t following the advice of an enlightened westerner who knows what real socialism looks like. A lot of these people claim to be third worldists as well, but are extremely dismissive of the voices of anyone in the third world who disagrees with them.