"Socialism Cannot Be Built in Alliance with the Bourgeoisie" (1980 pamphlet on China)

[Ismail]

A few weeks ago I asked Grover Furr to scan a pamphlet I had heard about from others.

Being the nice guy he is, he took me up on that offer and, well, here it is: http://www.sendspace.com/file/5tsu4k

There's not much to say about the pamphlet's background. It was published by "Southside Press," presumably by someone named Jim Washington. Despite being less than 50 pages it nicely details the pitfalls of Mao's "New Democracy" from an angle otherwise sympathetic to Mao. It criticizes the RCPUSA's defense (http://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-5/rcp-hoxha/index.htm) of this doctrine in their polemic against Hoxha and notes that in practical experience "New Democracy" was disastrous for the Chinese proletariat throughout the 50's, with the CCP openly taking the side of the bourgeoisie, who were considered among "the people" and thus not to be touched.

[nom de guerrevara]

'Maoism' as an ideology was a political justification for the Chinese Communist Party abandoning working class revolution in favor of a national liberation struggle. As such, it has a completely class collaborationist approach (bloc of four classes, new democracy) and therefore isn't an ideology of working class revolution.

[Ismail]

Yes, Hoxha's analysis of Mao's works led him to conclude that Maoism was anti-Marxist, while an analysis of China in general led him to conclude that 1949 was a bourgeois-democratic revolution, not a proletarian one. Mao's "anti-dogmatism" under which he attacked Stalin and displayed friendliness towards Soviet revisionism, and his nationalism (which caused him to break with Soviet revisionism to pursue his own "national" revisionism, including the "GPCR"), were examples.