Does anyone here know more about this guy's politics? I can gather what he meant by "false socialism". The question is, what did he imply was "true socialism"?
Cheers, Mike B)
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....He was 80 years old and lived in East Windsor, N.J.
The cause of death was believed to be complications related to colon cancer, said his wife, Zhu Hong.
A crusading investigative journalist and devoted Marxist, Mr. Liu became a popular figure in China for his literary exposés in the official party newspaper, People's Daily, on greed, corruption and rampant abuse of power within the Communist Party system....
"The problem does not lie with socialism itself," he once told The New York Review of Books. "The socialism imported from the Soviet Union and implemented in China was not true socialism. From Stalin to Mao Zedong, we have had false socialism."
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