Essay:Analysis of Hoxhaist arguments

Hoxhaists often use false arguments to prove that Chairman Mao was a revisionist. Comrades of the Maoist Students Collective have analysed Enver Hoxha's critique against Chairman Mao and the People's Republic of China during the Maoist era.

Can the Chinese Revolution be called a proletarian revolution?

The book “Can the Chinese Revolution Be Called a Proletarian Revolution”, written by Enver Hoxha, tries to prove that the Chinese Revolution was a “bourgeois-democratic revolution.” Enver Hoxha compared the Chinese Revolution with the French Revolution, which does not make any sense.

Analyzing the Chinese Revolution

The Chinese Revolution was not a bourgeois revolution. The Chinese Revolution was led by both the Peasantry and the Proletariat; those were the main classes that participated in the Chinese Revolution. The Chinese Revolution was also supported by the Petty-bourgeoisie and elements of the National Bourgeoisie. What the Chinese Revolution was, was a New-Democratic Revolution. A New-Democratic Revolution completes the tasks of a bourgeois revolution and is required for communist movements to overcome bureaucrat-comprador capitalism in semi-colonial and semi-feudal countries.

Analyzing the French Revolution

What is different from the Chinese Revolution is that the French Revolution did not advocate for Class struggle, but rather for a bourgeois takeover. The French Revolution smashed feudalism and monarchy, yet it replaced them with the rule of the bourgeoisie. After 1789, the new government was a bourgeois‑democratic government, while the new People's Government was not any Bourgeois government.

Conclusion

No, the two Revolutions are not similar as we have just compared them. There are smaller similarities, but it does not make both the same type of Revolution, since the Chinese Revolution was more reliant on Class struggle and partnership with the Petty Bourgeoisie and the National Bourgeoisie. Both are very different from each other.