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https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/books/review/13grim.html
A free spirit, K’ang Sheng-kuo.
In fact, this is similar to a Fahrenheit 451 story.
Sheng-kuo was a book-loving boy under a regime that was burning more books, daily, than any other regime in history: hundreds of thousands of tonnes.
At his grandparents’s house was hidden a treasure trove of books he could bury himself in.
This collection was also to be seized and burned a few years later.
All his life he would rescue and read books.“They must and will be crushed.”
NOT the language of democratic socialism!
In fact, it’s the language of fascism.
The military rallies in Russia, China and North Korea look just as Scotsman describes. So they are Nazis too.
Scotsman sees justification for smashing and blighting the lives of thousands of people with warfare and high explosives by shouting “they are Nazis!”
All nationalists and militarists use WW2 as an excuse, and “Nazi” is a universal epithet for justifying state violence.
F: Hu Feng’s Prison Years, by Mei Zhi.
“China’s first literary dissident’s Kafkaesque journey through the prisons of the Cultural Revolution.Hu Feng, the ‘counterrevolutionary’ leader of a banned literary school, spent twenty-five years in the Chinese Communist Party’s prison system…. ”
Hu Feng, a Marxist who never joined the Communist Party, and who was persecuted by the Mao clique.
Unlike China and the Soviet Union, I see no revolutionary capitalist purpose for the state-capitalist regimes in countries such as Albania, KR Cambodia, Cuba, etc. They just appear to me to be regimes tailored to the whim of tyrants such as Hoxha and Pol Pot, influenced by a personal love affair with Leninism. In what way did their state-capitalism have any revolutionary purpose in the capitalist context?
The same with North Korea. The Kim dynasty’s rule has not furthered capitalist development but hindered it and frozen the north in comparison with the highly developed south.
https://www.wionews.com/world/why-chinas-president-xi-jinping-fears-winnie-the-pooh-313823
Winnie the Pooh banned from China.
Btw, I recommend The Tao of Pooh as a superb book.
Yes Wez, it was Europe which spread capitalism globally.
There is a vast difference between the European travellers of the 13th and 14th centuries in Asia and the conquering Europeans from the 16th c. onwards. The former were humble learners, the latter plunderers and thugs.
As for the Peasant Revolt, it is my understanding that the bourgeoisie was afraid of the peasants and their utopian communism, and pointedly refused to assist them. But this means a new topic.
