I am a bit of a "boo" for a culture of affordable housing low cost of living, healthcare, and technological advancement for the betterment of society as a whole.
There's one thing which I think many people in China themselves don't know but which is talked about in Russia quite a lot. After the overthrow of Stalin, the Soviet leadership wanted the Chinese Communist Party to ouster Mao the way Khrushchev was ousted. Zhou Enlai came to Moscow, and there was an expectation and hope that this would lead to an improvement in relations between the Soviet Union and China.
Over the course of that meeting, the Soviet defense minister, a man called Marshall Malinowski, came up to Zhou Enlai. Zhou Enlai assumed that Malinowski was talking on behalf of the entire Soviet leadership. He said, "Look, we've just overthrown our own idiot, Khrushchev. Why don't you do the same thing to Mao?"
Zhou Enlai said, "Under no circumstances. If you think that's what I'm about, if you think that this is what China's about, you have misunderstood us completely."
Zhou Enlai reported this to Mao. Mao was of course extremely angry and very alarmed. He then messaged Moscow and said, "What is this?" He was expecting that the Soviet leadership would repudiate Malinowski or even sack him, and they didn't. So after that, Mao completely understandably assumed that they really were out to get him, which probably many of them were.
We also now know that there was a faction within the Soviet leadership at that time, led by a man called Alexander Shelepin, who wanted to improve relations with China. He was a committed communist and he wanted to reunite the communist movement. He was secretary to the central committee and he was in conflict with Brezhnev, who was the Soviet leader at this time. Of course, he lost the internal power struggle in Moscow, but quite possibly relations with China were affected by this internal power struggle.
This has been talked a lot about in Moscow because the Russians, just to say this, blame themselves for the failure of the relationship with China in the 60s. It is well understood in Moscow today that they made a whole succession of catastrophic errors, that they treated China and Mao himself with extreme disrespect. And there is a very widespread view in Russia today that the single reason why the Soviet Union collapsed was precisely because of the split in the communist movement and the fact that the Soviet Union found itself in the 70s pitted against both China and the United States simultaneously, and this broke its resources.
I'd love to know his sources and be able to dive into them a bit more and verify his take.
There are many thousands of ways to correct individuals. The best way is to send one armed expert. I don’t mean to outshout him with logic, I mean correct him. Slay him, assassinate him with thuggee, by silenced pistol, shotgun, with a high-powered rifle shooting from four hundred yards away and behind a rock. Suffocation, strangulation, crucifixion, burning with flamethrower, dispatch by bomb. Auto accidents happen all day. People drown, get poleaxed, breathe noxious gases, get stabbed, get poisoned with bad water, ratsbane, germicides, hemlock, arsenic, strychnine, L.S.D. 25 concentrate, cyanide, hydrocyanic acid, vitriol. A snake could bite him, nicotine oil is deadly, an overdose of dope; there’s deadly nightshade, belladonna, datura, wolfsbane, foxglove, aconite, ptomaine, botulism, and the death of a thousand cuts. But a curse won’t work.
Wikipedia (yeah I know) says General Horta Inta-A Na Man "attended a Soviet military academy, as he wears a badge on his uniform from his time in the USSR"
So that could be cool. But I think its just a wait and see situation.
Burkina Faso already had a proletarian revolution in our life time. There will be more but if you mean will you see it where you live and you live in a western nation I doubt it.
There may be a few western nations that might flip unexpectedly but I'm not holding out hope. Most labor aristocrats will choose to live through fascism before socialism is given a chance. So I'd guess it'll be a few decades minimum.
A 4000 year old religion has 15 million followers and a 1400 year old religion has 2 billion... Now I'm no Religious mathematician but if one of those religions is superior... just saying... I know how the numbers look to me.
Marx already figured out how and when a communist revolution happens.
T/(I*C)=R
Time (Communism is inevitable) immiseration of the working classes (people need to suffer to revolt) * Class consciousness (if there isn't enough class consciousness you might get a revolution but it will not be Communist) = Communist Revolution.
Your job is to increase class consciousness. The capitalists can't help but immiserate workers (because of the tendency for falling profits) but Class consciousness is only furthered by communists.
Read theory, Agitate, Organize, the rest is just a matter of time.
Imagine being such a cucked government that you'd actually consider returning one of 8 bombs that was dropped on you... during a cease fire.