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I said their goal was to unite the world under communism, because it was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_re
by subjectsigma 6y ago
I said their goal was to unite the world under communism, because it was:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_split https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_split
> In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Sino-Soviet debates about the interpretation of orthodox Marxism became specific disputes about the USSR's policies of national de-Stalinization and international peaceful coexistence with the Western world, which Mao decried as revisionism. Against that ideological background, China took a belligerent stance towards the West, and publicly rejected the USSR's policy of peaceful coexistence between the Eastern and Western blocs.
- FooBarWidget 6y agoSo that means they are no longer like that. Then it's not fair to say they "have been antagonist from the start", right? Imagine putting that same label on Japan because they were imperialist.
- subjectsigma 6y agoMy point was, while they don't (openly) try to convert others to communism, China still sees America as the enemy and America sees China as the enemy. With good reason.