Thomas_More
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“He is like Donald Trump who knows more than the Generals.”
What do you mean? He knows it wouldn’t be WW3 if NATO came in, or he doesn’t care?
Is he that stupid?
“My commonsense still leads me to believe it was unintentional and Zelinsky is merely trying to make as much political propaganda out of it as he can.”
Quite so.
People, like many who write rubbish on Quora, who are blase about nuclear exchanges, have really no realistic concept of the power of such weapons.
I would refer them to Carl Sagan, or even to Stephen Fry, who have both presented realistic documentaries on nuclear war.
Even were only India and Pakistan to have a nuclear exchange, it would spark a global nuclear winter. Even if “the other side” in a conflict never fired back, “our own side’s” doing so would kill us all. Most would be blind instantly on the receiving side, who were not immediately incinerated. There would be mass starvation. The Sun would be blocked out. The radiation would cover the globe, and we would soon be unable to breathe.
What would Zelensky have to gain by provoking a world war in which we all die, including him and his?
Quite interesting.
This is not to deny that the realists in the CPC were state-capitalist Leninist cronies, but that they saw Mao was a liability to the object of developing capitalism in China.
Starving, dying workers can’t produce surplus value.
“How anyone can fall for that BS is hard to fathom….”
Mao’s stormtroopers were exceedingly young, with most even of them going along with their peers through fear. Children had to beat teachers they loved and respected, or be themselves beaten. China became a nation of actors for outside observers. Everyone had to smile, or be beaten; even those who were starving. Far from the image of mass enthusiasm projected, there were peasant uprisings, workers’ strikes in the cities, defacements of Mao’s portrait and calls for him to be arrested and punished.
Mao launched the Terror precisely because, from 1958 to 1961, the CPC had squeezed him out, knowing he was insane. Over thirty million had died as a result of his Stalinist agrarian policies, which did not work for China. Liu Shao-ch’i and Teng Hsiao-p’ing reversed Mao’s policies and Peking Daily ignored his articles. He had lost credibility. So he launched the “Cultural Revolution” to inflame the young and rid himself of the more realist members who had sidelined him. With his wife and the Terrorist K’ang Sheng, he regained control by violence of media outlets and destroyed his rivals, regaining the absolute control he craved.
And books were burning all over China. This had been going on since the 50s. Children took their parents books to be burned. Libraries were destroyed. Apart from Marxist classics, every book had to mention Mao adoringly on every page in order to be spared.
China’s written heritage was almost completely obliterated. Professor Kang, who now teaches at Yale, and who spent his life from boyhood in Mao’s prisons for being a book lover, spent his childhood immersed in his grandmother’s hidden library. In 1966 this collection was also discovered and consigned to the flames.
Another cultish practice:
Red Guards stood at street corners with scissors, to pounce on both men and women whose hair wasn’t short and “communist” enough.Anti-fascism = fascism.
Bizarre fact related by Edgar Snow.
One of Mao’s coterie left China, went to the USA and joined the KKK!
Snow does not elaborate.Chinese CP members were sent to Russia in the 1930s to assist the Stalinist purges by purging those Chinese CP representatives who were residing in the Soviet Union.
The incidents I have described about Maoism are not from western media, TS, but from CPC state archives, referenced in books.
Movimiento, these horrors also took place during the “Cultural Revolution”, but were not new. They began when Mao took power over the CPC and the arrival at Yenan in the mid-30s and throughout the 40s, and were applied to the nation as a whole from 1948.
Moderator, I know these are off thread, but I have needed to reply to points made here. to Movimiento, and TS does not visit the Chinese threads.
