RedDawn [he/him]
In fact, the approach China has taken means it has also developed a strong capitalist class.
Not really, there are capitalists in China with a lot of economic power, but they don’t constitute a “strong capitalist class”. Look at who constitutes the membership of CCP committee, especially as you go higher up. The capitalist class, to the extent that it even exists as a class in China, has no political power and is under the thumb of the Communist Party.
This is a good idea!
There was a sort of power vacuum in the making in Cuba that would have allowed practically anybody to come in and take power the way that Castro and Che did. Che’s approach, the Foco, is not theoretically sound. It was basically “let’s just try doing a protracted people’s war without bothering to get the support of the people first. Then, when the state forces come into the countryside killing people to retaliate against our assault, the people will surely join us.” They really honestly lucked out in Cuba and I’ve read criticisms of Castro (I think from some Trot author) alleging that Castro wasn’t even a communist when he started to take power in the first place, it was only after he got into power, tried to do some good things for the people and got insane pushback from the US that he ended up becoming ML.
“They demand that the first act of the social revolution shall be the abolition of authority. Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists. “ Engels, On Authority