December 10, 2022 By Stephen Gowans It has been a tough week for the star-gazers who run a platform called Friends of Socialist China, a motley collection of Sinophiles and pretend-Marxists who sup…
If you were a fledgling communist movement in the past, you could count on the USSR for support. For example, USSR sent Cuba agricultural machinery and fertiliser, allowing them to farm efficiently and feed their people. If you are a communist movement, you cannot count on China for help. China night help, or they might not, it’s not as certain as in times of USSR.
Did the USSR even back them? I know China aided the NPA. in the 70s, but I haven’t seen anything about USSR doing so. I’d imagine at that point the USSR wouldn’t be that quick to support a Maoist insurgency. Especially one backed by China during the sino-soviet split.
If you were a fledgling communist movement in the past, you could count on the USSR for support. For example, USSR sent Cuba agricultural machinery and fertiliser, allowing them to farm efficiently and feed their people. If you are a communist movement, you cannot count on China for help. China night help, or they might not, it’s not as certain as in times of USSR.
Kind of a bummer
Did the USSR even back them? I know China aided the NPA. in the 70s, but I haven’t seen anything about USSR doing so. I’d imagine at that point the USSR wouldn’t be that quick to support a Maoist insurgency. Especially one backed by China during the sino-soviet split.
china helped cuba doing its “special period” iirc