Essay:Refuting Common "Dengist" Arguments
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Dengism is a veritable cancer to the Marxist movement, a revisionist pollutant which takes the revolutionary inclinations of the masses and distorts them to fulfill the desires of the social-imperialist Chinese bourgeoisie.
Dengism must be combated with all due militancy and exposed as the counter-revolutionary, right-opportunist tendency that it is. That following are common arguments employed by followers of this revisionist deviation.
"Dengist" arguments
"China raised 800 million people out of poverty, ergo, socialism!"
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"How can you argue against millions of CPC members? You don't know better than them!"
This argument is premised on an argumentum ad populum[a] fallacy. What is popular is not necessarily correct. For instance, the National Socialist German Workers' Party had over 8 million members at its height, yet it espoused the most backwards, reactionary stances known to humanity. A more member example would be the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is the largest party in the world by membership (over 180 million members) yet espouses a fascistic, Hindu nationalist tendency.[1]
By the same reasoning employed by Dengites, how could anyone question these fascistic organizations when they hold millions of members?[b]
It must be noted that this argument, in addition to maintaining obviously fallacious reasoning, is also relying on an anti-Marxist, subjectivist position. Revisionists who espouse this argument are suggesting that reality is not one, definite truth but a myriad of "national" truths shaped independently of each other which have no relationship to the other.
"China executes billionaires, therefore, they are anti-capitalist!"
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References
- ↑ Akansha Arora (December 8, 2023). "Top-10 Largest Political Parties in the World 2023".