Maoists, how do you justify the "Bloc of the Four Social Classes"

[Emmeka]

I'm curious, how do Maoists on this forum justify Mao's theories on collaboration with the bourgeoisie?

"Internally, arouse the masses of the people. That is, unite the working class, the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie, form a domestic united front under the leadership of the working class, and advance from this to the establishment of a state which is a people's democratic dictatorship under the leadership of the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants."

"China's major exploiting classes, the landlord class and the bureaucrat-bourgeoisie (the monopoly capitalist class), will be eliminated for good. There remain the national bourgeoisie; at the present stage, we can already do a good deal of suitable educational work with many of them. When the time comes to realize socialism, that is, to nationalize private enterprise, we shall carry the work of educating and remoulding them a step further. The people have a powerful state apparatus in their hands -- there is no need to fear rebellion by the national bourgeoisie."

"The national bourgeoisie at the present stage is of great importance. Imperialism, a most ferocious enemy, is still standing alongside us. China's modern industry still forms a very small proportion of the national economy. No reliable statistics are available, but it is estimated, on the basis of certain data, that before the War of Resistance Against Japan the value of output of modern industry constituted only about 10 per cent of the total value of output of the national economy. To counter imperialist oppression and to raise her backward economy to a higher level, China must utilize all the factors of urban and rural capitalism that are beneficial and not harmful to the national economy and the people's livelihood; and we must unite with the national bourgeoisie in common struggle."

"Our present policy is to regulate capitalism, not to destroy it."

- On the People's Democratic Dictatorship, 1949

This seems to suggest that Mao openly promoted developing capitalism in China through the native Chinese bourgeoisie, supervising it so that when ready they could eventually take over and enact Socialism. And it's hardly isolated to that single work from 1949.

"China's national bourgeoisie has a revolutionary quality at certain periods and to a certain degree, because China is a colonial and semi-colonial country which is a victim of aggression. Here, the task of the proletariat is to form a united front with the national bourgeoisie against imperialism and the bureaucrat and warlord governments without overlooking its revolutionary quality."

- On New Democracy, 1940

[Sudsy]

No Mao never supported capitalism in China, he believed that if all these four classes collaborated to defeat feudalism, (the period before capitalism as defined by Marx) they could skip the capitalist phase to create a New Democratic socialist state.

[Rafiq]

Mao was a reactionary and the ultimate defiler ot Marxism. That... abomination today called Maoism is such a bizarre clusterfuck not even the most skilled vulgarists could devise a more obscene embaressment to us.

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2

[TheGodlessUtopian]

"Mao's Bloc of Four Classes: Lessons About Revolutionary Alliance"

[ind_com]

I'm curious, how do Maoists on this forum justify Mao's theories on collaboration with the bourgeoisie?



This seems to suggest that Mao openly promoted developing capitalism in China through the native Chinese bourgeoisie, supervising it so that when ready they could eventually take over and enact Socialism. And it's hardly isolated to that single work from 1949.

Isn't the YCL-LJC a reformist group itself? Just curious.

[ind_com]

Mao was a reactionary and the ultimate defiler ot Marxism. That... abomination today called Maoism is such a bizarre clusterfuck not even the most skilled vulgarists could devise a more obscene embaressment to us.

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2

I have never heard anything funnier, and our parties don't care about being an embarrassment to any tiny reading group in the west. If you had been anything relevant to the international communist movement then your participation in class struggle would have made the people around you see beyond your alleged embarrassment by political movements in faraway countries.