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Starting in 1965, Chinese were ordered to pull up grass and flowers, and kill their pets. All three, grass, flowers and pets, were called “bourgeois.”
Prior to this, in the 1950s, all dogs were rounded up and starved to death in compounds. Everyone had also to kill all sparrows that could be found, and make noise under trees so that birds couldn’t rest.Confucius lived when China was actually feudal, in the Chou dynasty.
Feudalism ended with Chin Shih Huang’s conquest of the feudal kingdoms in the third century B.C.E.
Confucius was hated by the tyrant Chin, and the first emperor’s book-burnings were emulated by Mao in the 20th century.China’s imperial mode of production was consolidated under the Han, in our Roman times. Confucius’ writings were deemed useful by then, and adopted by the throne. But he himself had lived in the past feudal society.
Which would absolve Trotsky from being the wilful distorter that the others were, were he not a killer of workers.
Chu Teh, on walking by the Silk River: “Szechuan is indeed a heavenly place.”
Secretary: “Pity that lies and false communism are ruining it.”
(Source: Wild Swans by Jung Chang)
Proof of Mao’s derangement, or just plain cynical contempt.
During the famine his policies had engineered, he launched this slogan, to be shouted through loudspeakers, printed, daubed on walls, and repeated vocally:
“CAPABLE WOMEN CAN MAKE A MEAL WITHOUT FOOD!”
Accepted death toll from the famine is 30 million.
Wez, it wasn’t “lefty liberal types” I was thinking of, but the “hard left”, who call themselves Marxists. Of course, labourism has also distorted the word ‘socialism’ to mean nationalisation, but the hard left are worse than that by supporting red fascist totalitarianism.
Mao’s most prominent Torquemada was Kang Sheng. There were many answerable to him, and he was answerable to Mao, who, like Hitler and Stalin, loved to play his underlings against each other.
Mao despised his own origins, the peasants, and he despised the workers. He feared anyone educated.
We in the west were never told of the misery the CPC inflicted right from the beginning of Mao’s ascendancy, back in the 1930s and 40s in Yenan, and through the 1950s – and all before the so-called Cultural Revolution of the 60s, which most of us assume was the start. The population was not passive, in spite of Mao’s propaganda machine, which insisted that everyone smile all the time, even while starving to death. There were open rebellions and calls for Mao’s arrest.
