Thomas_More
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In June 1966 all teaching stopped in Chinese schools. Instead, pupils had to gaze at a portrait of Mao every day.
You’re a Holocaust-denyer?
Re: manufacturing consent, isn’t that also the role of the Russian state? If not, why are opposition journalists and news stations silenced?
Yes, we are free of ideology. We are people who have come together because of points of agreement about society. We don’t sing from any songsheet handed down by a leadership.
But TS is revealing here a conspiracist trait. Conspiracists have no discernment. We socialists can read, watch or listen to anyone, and we use discernment to separate what is likely or unlikely, true or false. Conspiracists don’t have that ability, which is probably why TS isn’t paying attention to any substance here. Like a conspiracist, he is simply an ideology-follower, with everything simplistically black and white.
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.
