POL SCI 140L Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Chauvinism, Berlin Wall, History Of Communism
21 Mar 2018
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Mao hated stalin and doesn"t really respect his successors. Ambivalent relationship, mao thinks successors are inferior and don"t know what they"re doing. Not different conceptions on how to build socialism, but power politics on international scale! Mao thought the soviet union wasn"t fulfilling its responsibility as leader of the world. Anti-colonialist struggle in the 3rd world will define the future of international relations. War is inevitable, we should be prepared to fight it. No need to fear full-scale nuclear war: it was winnable. Imperialists are paper tigers you can easily challenge them. They would liberate the countryside and storm the cities. China"s enormous population made him fearless in many regards. Soviet union had propagated that the prospect of nuclear war is so horrific it should never happen now the leader of the prc was saying it was inevitable and winnable . Khrushchev believed in nuclear threats but not nuclear war.
