Mao Biography upsetting the Marxists
Boo Hoo, yet another Marxist Dictator is being exposed as the murderer he truly was, and the Socialists are not happy about it…
“In Berkeley, where revolutionaries schooled in the ’60s tilt against global capitalism and post-socialist state China is a growing field of academic study, radicals and scholars alike are coming to grips with a new biography that paints Chinese communist icon Mao Zedong as pure evil.
In “Mao: The Unknown Story,” authors Jung Chang and Jon Halliday portray Mao (1893-1976) as a cynical hedonist who rose to absolute power on Soviet strongman Josef Stalin’s muscle and his willingness to crush millions of peasants in famine, war and sadistic repression.
The authors, who spent a decade on the project and scoured private and government records in China and Russia, say Mao killed 10 times more innocents than Hitler and was as pitiless as he was incompetent as a revolutionary. The fabled Long March of the 1930s? Bungled. The Cultural Revolution of the ’60s and ’70s? Nothing more than a murderous fit of pique by a tyrant upset that he’d been crossed by rivals and enamored of public torture.”
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“What sets this apart from other historical studies is that this person Mao, who led an historic revolution and changed the landscape of China and was an inspiration throughout the world — they’re saying this was a scheming, bloodthirsty opportunist who was evil from the day he was born to the day he died and who hijacked a revolution,” Lotta said. “I think it’s part of a continuing attempt to discredit communism and Maoism and any alternative to the current world order.”
And discrediting Communism is bad???
I keep hearing all about “post socialist” China, and Capitalist China. I don’t where these people get their facts but until China has free elections, a free press, Rule of Law, Seperation of Powers, and most notably, A FREE MARKET ECONOMY, as well as Protection of the masses to buy and sell property, they will not be, and are not a capitalist country.
They are still a Communist state that has a ruling class soaking a lavish lifestyle off the blood, sweat, and tears of the workers.
This new book exposing Mao is a good thing, but don’t be fooled into thinking that any sort of discrepancies in lifestyle and income are because of Capitalism in China. Nothing could be further from the truth. Free Markets and the Rule of Law will bring prosperity and a higher standard of living to this traumetized country. When Mao’s picture is finally taken off of Chinese Money, then I believe China will have regained its soul.
I have not read the book yet, but Wild Swans is one of my favorites!
Jenny Hatch