Carrol didn't speak about the Chinese Revolution in an abstract sense; he suggested a specific work about an aspect of it. Have you actually read _Fanshen_? It's possible that you will get nothing out of it, but you wouldn't know that without at least browsing it, no?
Also, presumably, LBO-talkers are in the business of radical social change. Then, (both good and bad) experiences of revolutions and radical social movements, past or present, be they in the USA or elsewhere, should be of interest to us. -- Yoshie
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