"China’s Communist Party retreated from the cities to the countryside to wage a protracted guerrilla war"
"This long separation from the Chinese working class"
So I suppose that according to Jacobin, the "Chinese working class" are actually bourgeoisie capitalists who enjoy lavish lifestyles in cities while sitting on the backs of the poor proletariats?
Or that the Communists defeated the Nationalists with troops made up of Chinese floras and faunas?
This man is just repeating what Mao's opponents said decades ago.
Those "real Bolsheviks" always thought that the Soviet theory was the only correct one, and that the peasants were backward and irretrievable classes.(Even Stalin underestimated Mao's ability)
Mao once mercilessly accused Liang Shuming (梁漱溟,a famous intellectual) in public that the life of workers is more unstable than that of farmers who own fields, so ensuring the treatment of workers should be put in the first place. Even if we cut wages, we should first cut the wages of intellectuals with social status, such as Liang Shuming.