"The 1917 Russian Revolution and the 1949 Chinese Revolution were the two most important historical events in the 20th Century. The Cuban Revolution succeeded in 1959 and though it was smaller in scale it had significant influence, especially in Latin American countries. (1/5)
These heroic revolutions were all led by communist parties, the vanguard of the proletariat. Now another hundred years later, the Russian Revolution and Chinese Revolution have both been defeated. (2/5)
The Communist Party in the USSR embarked on revisionism in 1956 and the Chinese embarked on capitalist reform in 1978. In 2018, 100 years after Luxemburg's warning to modern society, all of humankind is again facing total destruction. What are we to do? (3/5)
We have the choice of either burying our heads in the sand and accepting the verdict of leading capitalist propaganda that socialism has failed and capitalism has won, thus signaling the end of history, ... (4/5)
or we can choose socialism over barbarism like our courageous forebears in 1917 and 1949 and many of our contemporaries today."
- Paoyu Ching, "From Victory to Defeat: China's Socialist Road and Capitalist Reversal" (5/5)
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