Modern China pt 4: The Deng Reform Period to Today w: Ken Hammond

In our final installment of our Modern China series, we conclude with this important, and inevitably controversial discussion of the Deng Reforms and the Reform Period! Very important that no matter your ideological tendencies, you come into this episode with an open mind, because there will be a lot of useful information for you regardless of how you analyze the Deng Reforms overall - this is meant primarily as a resource to allow you to deepen your personal understanding and analysis of this critical juncture in Chinese and world history. We definitely want to also thank Ken for spending over 6 hours with us on this mini-series, and we hope that you all get some use from it!
Ken Hammond is Professor of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University. He has been engaged in radical politics since his involvement in the anti-war movement at Kent State in 1968-70. Ken is also the author of the book China’s Revolution & the Quest for a Socialist Future.
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[@lukeee117]

thanks for this series. Very informative

[@augusth3532]

This podcast was very enlightening for an American like me who's heard nothing but the capitalist side of this history. I had no idea that the Tianamen Sq incident was a purely motivated student protest.

[@nautiluswalker4122]

1:33:30 not even under socialism do workers get the full value of their labour. Surplus labour value belongs to the works in general, not individual workers.

[@nautiluswalker4122]

11:22:50 Economic liberalization DOES lead to political liberalization. It is NOT a fantasy. Marx, Engles,Lenin, Stalin etc ALL knew this.

[@JakubKieblesz]

In conclusion, Deng Xiaoping was a revisionist and did not understand the importance of class struggle and over emphasised the advancement of the productive forces.

[@Solaris_Paradox]

Down with US, Soviet and Chinese Social-Imperialism!

[@WayLeft]

And it worked. Xi is now remedying all of the negative consequences of reform and opening up

[@Solaris_Paradox]

Dengism is the highest form of Trotskyism.

[@NoxAeterna-wf4iv]

He was one of the biggest c#nt, who destroyed Mao's legacy and the work done by Mao and other revolutionaries of China.

[@nautiluswalker4122]

YUP 👍