Re:The Mao-Kissinger Meeting of 1973
by irthomasthomas on Saturday June 10, 2023 @09:14AM
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Not surprising given Marx's theory, that capitalism, unchecked, was bound to become centralised, and monopolised. Thus, creating the conditions for a revolutionary transition to totalitarian dictatorship of the proletariat. But leaping too soon to communism retards that process.
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I don't think "totalitarian" is part of Marx credo. Dictatorship is not used in that sense, and in any kind, according to Marx this dictatorship is transitional and must also end.
Agreed about the "not leaping" too soon comment, though.
In the end I think Mao simply saw the USSR as the more immediate threat, and faraway rightists in America were less of a concern -- and if they opposed the Russkies, so much the better!