This talking point is so popular, yet not a single tankie can be bothered to do a quick search to learn what CIA meant by “collective leadership”. Spoiler: it doesn’t mean worker democracy or anything similar. I had a link somewhere to a CIA document with the actual meaning - a “dictatorship by committee”, a party oligarchy.
This talking point is so popular, yet not a single tankie can be bothered to do a quick search to learn what CIA meant by “collective leadership”. Spoiler: it doesn’t mean worker democracy or anything similar. I had a link somewhere to a CIA document with the actual meaning - a “dictatorship by committee”, a party oligarchy.