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...what is at the root of the conflict between Vietnam and Cambodia is the rival nationalism inherent in all Stalinist bureaucracies. The Stalinist "theory" of "Socialism in One Country" has in practice meant selling out workers struggles everywhere else and is counterposed to Lenin and Trotsky's view of proletarian internationalism...

Author: By Alison Schorr, | Title: The Peking-U.S. Collusion in Vietnam | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

...workers states is that the economic gains of the anti-capitalist revolutions remain intact; i.e. there is no bourgeoisie, private property has been collectivized and there is a planned economy. But the self-serving Stalinist bureaucracies have politically expropriated the working class by excluding the most elementary expression of proletarian democracy: workers soviets. We give no support to one Stalinist regime over another but call for political revolution against the bureaucracies whose class-collaborationist policies sabotage the very existence of the collective property forms upon which their states rest...

Author: By Alison Schorr, | Title: The Peking-U.S. Collusion in Vietnam | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

...Youth Leage has joined in and initiated demonstrations nationwide to defend the gains of the Vietnamese revolution which are severely jeopardized by the U.S./China alliance. Our call is directed to the Soviet, Vietnamese and Chinese masses whose interests can only be served by the Trotskyist program of international proletarian unity against imperialism...

Author: By Alison Schorr, | Title: The Peking-U.S. Collusion in Vietnam | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

...made that Mao lived too long. The Great Revolutionary died at 82, an enfeebled puppet. His legacy, after the Cultural Revolution, was a ramshackle economy, a badly equipped military and an educational system in which intellect and learning had been superseded by a dank, Orwellian passion for proletarian ideology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Visionary of a New China | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Teng attended the first Red Guard rallies, but he was soon singled out as a key target of the radical youths who spearheaded Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Teng was excoriated in the press as "Liu's henchman" and "even more sinister and dangerous than Liu." Pamphlets and wall posters claimed that Teng's consuming bourgeois passions were mah-jongg and bridge. While supposedly on inspection tours, it was charged, Teng was traveling around the country on specially chartered trains and planes with his card-playing cronies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Little Man in a Big Hurry | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

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