Comparing Mao to Hitler

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Mon Jun 7 06:33:45 PDT 1999



>...Delong sophmoric ridicule of my serious reponse
>the decision making process in Chinese mass movenments racist.
>They find lampooning communist rhetoric funny and used it to refute a
>serious statement. Western rhetoric on free market merits and
>the virtues of "democracy" sound equally illogical to progressive Asians...

If there is any content in the above, it sounds to me as though Mr. Liu is saying that:

democracy = racism

Perhaps he wishes to denounce me as a puppet of Emmanuel Goldstein as well?

Brad DeLong

war = peace

freedom = slavery

ignorance = strength



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