Carrying on the legacy of Deng Xiaoping

To the best of my knowledge that isnt really accurate. For one, smallpox, the biggest recurring epidemic disease, is from rats. Bubonic plague is from fleas on rats drawn to cowfeed and other grains stored in large quantities. Chickenpox, cowpox etc also from livestock.

For another, the water in pre-1800s Europe was much more drinkable than is commonly assumed. You might get worms, but generally you dont see the massive outbreaks of dysentry until urban populations explode from the 1600s on. Generally pre1800s epidemics are a complex mixture of lack of nutrition and a disease transmitted from some animal, rather than just “people drank their own shit”.

Animal cruelty? Causing disease? And general horrors? Another thing marx talked about (quote from Saito Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism):

…Responding to…enthusiastic reports about the 'system of selection developed by English breeder Robert Bakewell, [in 1864] Marx wrote in his notebook: ‘Characterized by precocity, in entirety sickliness, want of bones, a lot of development of fat and flesh etc. All these are artificial produces. Disgusting!’

Basically all of them afaik. Most of the big epidemics spread to humans from 1. domesticated animals 2. kept in very close/tight quarters

not a great feeling

Just wait until part 8

I’m hoping I’ll be more active then (school currently murdering me)

Khrushchev? What good has Khrushchev ever done?

-Deng, 1980

Metabolic rift theory

Marx mostly talks about this sorta over-extraction from ‘nature’ in terms of the soil, but it ofc applies to rare earths, wood, animals, water, etcetc too.

Saito (convincingly imo) argues this became more and more foundational to Marx’s critique in the decades after 1867.

Also yeah britain absolutely despicable; like 40million+ people starved / died of famine-induced disease in 1880-1900 alone. Evil fuckers

Marx’s random “here’s a big historical take I won’t elaborate on” footnotes are my favourite

Also some of Deng’s works could be neat e.g.

On agit-prop: https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/the-principles-tasks-and-orientation-for-cultural-work-in-the-129th-division/

On the organization of the people’s revolutionary government: https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/the-party-and-the-anti-japanese-democratic-government/

Foundation of Dengism (aka “the ideology of the modern Communist Party of China”): https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/emancipate-the-mind-seek-truth-from-facts-and-unite-as-one-in-looking-to-the-future/

On the dictatorship of the proletariat: https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/uphold-the-four-cardinal-principles/

Also the interview with Deng by Oriana Fallaci is neat: https://redsails.org/deng-and-fallaci/

The drafts of the response to Vera Zasulich’s inquiry: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/zasulich/

The correct order is ‘second’ -> ‘first’ -> third -> fourth, as the original editor got the actual first draft and the actual second draft backwards.

Has 1. repetition / rephrasings to build understanding of 2. one the key fundamentals of Marx’s theories 3. as expressed by Old!Marx 4. in response to wrongheaded ideas of what his ideas are.

I hope not