Let me hope that in the Year of the Dragon I can help expose you and your fellow travelling, Bi-Polar Political Pilgrims--read Paul Hollander to understand you Browns, Ehrets, et all [sicK], CCP propagandists and justifiers of 60+ million democides. Such is the legacy of Saint Murderer Mao.
Here is some revolting facts from the CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION for your New Year hypocritical truths.
Jeff, YOU are STILL one of these CHILDREN with the “soft skulls [as] fertile ground”—time to grow up and stop giving your mind to promote mass murderers.
“THE CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION Quillette, James David Banker, 18 Dec 2018
The ideological justification for the revolution was to purge the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and the nation more broadly, of impure elements hidden in its midst: capitalists, counter-revolutionaries, and “representatives of the bourgeoisie.”
To that end, Mao Zedong activated China’s youth—unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind—to lead the struggle for purity. Christened the “Red Guards,” they were placed at the vanguard of a revolution that was, in truth, a cynical effort by Mao to reassert his waning power in the Party. Nevertheless, it set in motion a self-destructive force of almost unimaginable depravity.
Mao’s decision to use China’s youth as his vanguard was, by fortune or foresight, instrumental to the revolution’s initial success. The young may be pure in heart, but they are also high on emotion and short on life experience. Simply put, they are natural philistines. Still in their identity-forming years, China’s young had few barriers to a complete identification with the Red Guards. Conformity and intolerance of dissent followed naturally. When students were not attending rallies and struggle sessions, they spent endless hours studying and discussing Mao’s Little Red Book. As Lu Li’an, a former Red Guard, explained, “We were taught only about revolution so when we read the works of propaganda literature we really wanted to be at the head, at the vanguard of revolutionary history.” With undeveloped mental immune systems, their soft skulls were fertile ground for Mao’s secular Manichaeism.”
RESOLUTION ON CERTAIN QUESTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF OUR PARTY SINCE THE FOUNDING OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (Adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on June 27, 1981)
19. The “cultural revolution", which lasted from May 1966 to October 1976, was responsible for the most severe setback and the heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the state and the people since the founding of the People’s Republic. It was initiated and led by Comrade Mao Zedong.
THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY 1962-1976 BY FRANK DIKOTTER – REVIEW. The Guardian, Julia Lovell, 2016
Fifty years ago this year, Mao Zedong issued the directive that launched the Cultural Revolution. His “May 16 Notification” exposed and denounced supposed traitors (“counter-revolutionary revisionists”) at all levels of the Chinese Communist party (CCP). By the time Mao died, just over a decade later, his final, extended purge had torn Chinese government and society apart. Perhaps one and a half million people died unnatural deaths (including two of Mao’s designated successors), millions more had been brutalised, the economy and education had been stultified by political dogma, and some 20 million had been banished from the cities to a countryside that could not feed them. The Cultural Revolution’s hyper-Maoism had devastated and disillusioned the population.
Sad New Year to you, Jeff.
Let me hope that in the Year of the Dragon I can help expose you and your fellow travelling, Bi-Polar Political Pilgrims--read Paul Hollander to understand you Browns, Ehrets, et all [sicK], CCP propagandists and justifiers of 60+ million democides. Such is the legacy of Saint Murderer Mao.
Here is some revolting facts from the CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION for your New Year hypocritical truths.
Jeff, YOU are STILL one of these CHILDREN with the “soft skulls [as] fertile ground”—time to grow up and stop giving your mind to promote mass murderers.
“THE CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION Quillette, James David Banker, 18 Dec 2018
The ideological justification for the revolution was to purge the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and the nation more broadly, of impure elements hidden in its midst: capitalists, counter-revolutionaries, and “representatives of the bourgeoisie.”
To that end, Mao Zedong activated China’s youth—unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind—to lead the struggle for purity. Christened the “Red Guards,” they were placed at the vanguard of a revolution that was, in truth, a cynical effort by Mao to reassert his waning power in the Party. Nevertheless, it set in motion a self-destructive force of almost unimaginable depravity.
Mao’s decision to use China’s youth as his vanguard was, by fortune or foresight, instrumental to the revolution’s initial success. The young may be pure in heart, but they are also high on emotion and short on life experience. Simply put, they are natural philistines. Still in their identity-forming years, China’s young had few barriers to a complete identification with the Red Guards. Conformity and intolerance of dissent followed naturally. When students were not attending rallies and struggle sessions, they spent endless hours studying and discussing Mao’s Little Red Book. As Lu Li’an, a former Red Guard, explained, “We were taught only about revolution so when we read the works of propaganda literature we really wanted to be at the head, at the vanguard of revolutionary history.” With undeveloped mental immune systems, their soft skulls were fertile ground for Mao’s secular Manichaeism.”
https://quillette.com/2018/12/18/the-children-of-the-revolution/?ref=quillette-weekly-newsletter
RESOLUTION ON CERTAIN QUESTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF OUR PARTY SINCE THE FOUNDING OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (Adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on June 27, 1981)
19. The “cultural revolution", which lasted from May 1966 to October 1976, was responsible for the most severe setback and the heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the state and the people since the founding of the People’s Republic. It was initiated and led by Comrade Mao Zedong.
https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/documents/cpc/history/01.htm?ref=quillette.com
THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY 1962-1976 BY FRANK DIKOTTER – REVIEW. The Guardian, Julia Lovell, 2016
Fifty years ago this year, Mao Zedong issued the directive that launched the Cultural Revolution. His “May 16 Notification” exposed and denounced supposed traitors (“counter-revolutionary revisionists”) at all levels of the Chinese Communist party (CCP). By the time Mao died, just over a decade later, his final, extended purge had torn Chinese government and society apart. Perhaps one and a half million people died unnatural deaths (including two of Mao’s designated successors), millions more had been brutalised, the economy and education had been stultified by political dogma, and some 20 million had been banished from the cities to a countryside that could not feed them. The Cultural Revolution’s hyper-Maoism had devastated and disillusioned the population.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/11/cultural-revolution-peoples-history-frank-dikotter-review
You are a man on a rabbit hole mission. I love your passion, as misguided as it is.
Happy New Year, Jeff
• China's Ice City BLEW ME AWAY! : The Harbin ICE Festival Experience - Barrett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjBKo54FJvQ
My wife and I were there in 1992/93. Same concept, but not as well developed.
It is truly amazing!