Comments on The Marxist-Leninist: Zhou Enlai: How to be a Good Leader

Zero,I didn't mean to imply that Zhou was the same...

2008-07-20T00:30:00.000-05:00

Zero,

I didn't mean to imply that Zhou was the same as Liu because had a few Rightist errors, but simply that I remain cautious and somewhat skeptical of his over role in that revolution.

As for particulars, there is a whole discussion of dialectics involved in moralistic musings of things such as this. Like Liu's "How to be a good Communist"... my goal as a communist is not to

And now my respose. I agree about Liu Shaoqi, he w...

2008-07-10T09:23:00.000-05:00

And now my respose.

I agree about Liu Shaoqi, he was a pragmatist and a Rightist. There's no doubt about it. The problems of the Deng Xiaoping line are rooted in Liu Shaoqi.

As for Zhou Enlai, I think he made some Rightist errors (so did Mao, for that matter), but I don't think he put forward a consistently revisionist line the way Deng Xiaoping did, and overall he was a good

Here's a comment from Celtic Fire, which couldn't ...

2008-07-10T01:05:00.000-05:00

Here's a comment from Celtic Fire, which couldn't be posted orginally due to technical difficulties. Here it is:

I've always felt uneasy about Zhou Enlai. He seeme... I've always felt uneasy about Zhou Enlai. He seemed to straddle the class contradictions and at times, supporting conflicting forces - especially during the GPCR.

But that's dialectics for you. Liu Shaoqi and