OPERATION CUBAN EMANCIPATION?

[Zhukov]

Blanco, you said "version". Of course people are going to dissagreee on definitions descriptions, especially from non marxists/stalinists etc. that doesn't mean Communism is different to what it has always been. Even the Maoists and Stalinists agree to that. I thought you were taking the piss anyway, so it doesn't matter.

As for Chinas policies, petty imperialism does not count as genuine sincerity in backing a revolution. China spreading revolutions around is about as true as George Bush spreading Democray around. Yes, China backed N korea, Vietnam - but for the same reasons Stalin wanted Eatern Europe to be incorporated into the USSR.

As for Africa, Angola only springs to my mind. The regime in China because of its national-based (as opposed to ideologically-based) opposition to Stalinist USSR ended up on the same side as imperialist USA in the Angola liberation war. while the USSR supported the MPLA (which went on to take power), the US and China supported both the FNLA and then UNITA. UNITA was a so-called Maoist guerrilla group and at the same time the main basis for reactionary forces against the new MPLA government after 1975, and they were supported by China, the US and racist South Africa. Hardly revolutionary.

Another example of the madness of "socialism in one country" that both Mao and Stalin stood for; and the lack of a serious political basis for the sino-soviet split. The USSR-China rivalry also led China to have links with Pinochet's Chile, Zia ul-Haq's Pakistan, and so on.

Also, if China had ever seriously backed the Maoist guerilla war in Nepal, they would have power by now.