purpleworm [none/use name]

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  • At the time, as a country suffering under the boot of imperialism, New Democracy really did make sense. The point of it was strategic alliances to handle the most urgent problems first, like fighting off Japan with the KMT before fighting off the KMT. Mao was very emphatic that progress toward a more completely proletarian state must always be occurring and the New Democratic order could not be allowed to ossify. He believed so strongly in that fact that he essentially instigated a civil war against the state that he founded in order to fight the bureaucrats.

    But Mao ultimately failed in his fight against bureaucracy and in the very end capitulated to the roaders.



  • Liberalism is itself not practical (liberal ideology taken to the rational extreme of practicality and efficiency is just fascism)

    I think this is giving entirely too much credit to both liberalism and especially fascism. “Practicality” and “efficiency” both imply goals and evaluations of the worth of resources used to reach those goals. What are the goals? Who is doing the evaluating? These are questions that are, at best, hand-waved, but often entirely ignored.

    Given the proper level of technological advancement, central planning is endlessly more practical and efficient than the anarchy of production under liberalism if your goal is broad societal welfare and not going through cyclical crises, and it is something that we should be pursuing.