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  • in reply to: Mao’s China? Ask a leper. #235382
    Thomas_More
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    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.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #235368
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    So you’d support North Korea killing you?

    Get out of that one.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #235358
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    TS, why not Pol Pot? He had the full support of the CPC.

    It was Mao’s hatchet man, Kang Sheng, who persuaded the CPC to back Pol Pot over Sihanouk, and China financed the Pol Pot regime.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #235347
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    Yes, TS supports the Kims, Stalin, Mao, Mugabe, Gaddafi, and logically he must also support Pol Pot.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #235336
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    Yes, Robbo. TS identifies with states, not with people!

    “This will spell the end of the world. If it happens better quit your job and spend all your money quicksmart. Neither will be of use any longer.”

    And this shows he even relishes the thought!

    And following his nationalist ‘logic’, we should all be gung-ho for “our” flags and govts too! Otherwise, we’re “cowards.”

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #235335
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    Wez, far from being sympathetic to us, it’s the Left who are responsible for damaging the word SOCIALISM so much that it’s well-nigh unusable.
    Think how easier life would be if we didn’t always have to begin with saying what we are NOT, and could just say straight-off what we ARE. But as soon as “Socialism” is mentioned, we’re fighting a rearguard action.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #235224
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    That’s right.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #235216
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    But mainly slaughtering proles!

    Aristocrats guillotined 6%.
    Labourers, ” 80%
    The rest, poor clerics, poets, scientists, writers, asocials.

    I repeat, when was the Left progressive?

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #235213
    Thomas_More
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    When were the Left progressive, Wez?

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #235183
    Thomas_More
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    TS obviously enjoys keeping company with us. Maybe he thinks he is getting our backs up, rattling our cage, etc. Quite the opposite. He keeps me entertained.

    Let’s hope he learns something – which he won’t of course admit to – from members’ contributions here.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #235178
    Thomas_More
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    Thank you.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #235175
    Thomas_More
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    TS’s stance is similar to that of the conspiracy theorists, who discard everything someone says because of one thing they don’t like.
    They too are ideology-followers, not analytical thinkers.
    One, a flat-earther, was enthusing to me that there are THOUSANDS of flat-earthers, “proving” in itself that the Earth is flat! 😀

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #235130
    Thomas_More
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    Exactly!

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #235126
    Thomas_More
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    “There are 93 million in the CPC. Who’s winning the battle of ideas?”

    The Communist (sic!) Party of China is the club for China’s capitalist class. During Mao’s regime it was a nationalist clique that imposed itself on the population and inflicted on workers and peasants decades of misery, bloodshed, torture, intimidation and coercive regimentation, promoting the idolatry of one man and his sycophantic clique-members. It never had anything to do with ideas or freethought, which require free people and democratic, free expression. It destroyed centuries of literary works and records, and thought was subjected to fascist control.
    Today, the CPC remains an imposed authoritarian tool of Chinese capitalism and imperialism.

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #235124
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    TS is a prime example of my definition of IDEOLOGY vs philosophy/analytical thought. As an ideology-follower, he can only repeat the slogans of his Bolshevik masters/propagandists. Never does any social analysis intervene.

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