{"id":20486,"date":"2010-09-17T17:17:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T21:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20486"},"modified":"2010-09-17T17:18:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T21:18:42","slug":"hows-mao-thing-working-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20486","title":{"rendered":"How’s that Mao thing working out?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A professor from Hong Kong was able to get unprecedented access to government archives in China from the period known as “The Great Leap Forward” during which Mao Zedong tried to catch China up with the twentieth century by wiping out millions of families<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Mr Dik\u00f6tter, who has been studying Chinese rural history from 1958 to 1962, when the nation was facing a famine, compared the systematic torture, brutality, starvation and killing of Chinese peasants to the Second World War in its magnitude. At least 45 million people were worked, starved or beaten to death in China over these four years; the worldwide death toll of the Second World War was 55 million. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In just four years. Pretty good role model ain’t he? That’s probably why Victor Agosto, of the IVAW admires him (that’s Victor mimicking Mao’s image in the Great Leap Forward poster above). Yeah, the founders of ANSWER and World Can’t Wait were all admitted Maoists – but if we call them communists, we’re “red baiting”. <\/p>\n

Victor says China’s model of communism is “state capitalism”. But, Mao was a Stalinist and used starvation as a weapon against his people just like Stalin and Lenin did. <\/p>\n

The lessons of history are always lost on the Left. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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