Thomas_More
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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.
Movimiento, those the Maoists called “landlords” in the 1940s and 50s were mostly poor farmers.
Infants were not exempt. Toddlers were tortured and killed as well as adults. Mao’s maxim was “I don’t care who I harm, but no one will be allowed to harm me.”
Mao caused road havoc and some deaths when he ordered his most ardent followers to drive on the wrong side of the road.
“A true Communist must drive on the left side of the road. Driving on the right is counterrevolutionary!”True Narcissist just cannot conceive of someone not being for either side. Hence his continuing to address us as pro-western.
And this is where his Putinism coincides with the conspiraloons. They, too, misperceive things in the same way. They avoid social analysis because they are incapable of it. It isn’t even attainable by their severely restricted radar.At least the fall of the Gang of Four and Mao’s death brought an end to the onslaught of Maoism on China’s people and written heritage.
Already millions had died as a direct result of Mao’s demented policies, which even his own underlings knew were insane. And any more book burning and destruction would have completely destroyed Chinese antique literature and arts.Also, Mao, Nixon, Pol Pot, and friend Idi Amin, and later Reagan, Thatcher and Teng Hsiao-p’ing must have been an anti-imperialist coalition, as Chou En-lai et al were eager to point out … against ‘social imperialist’ Russia.
