Comparing Mao to Hitler

[Brad De Long]

Re:
>
>These specific misrepresentations by Max were expressed
>in his exchange with Brad D. mocking Maoist thought as
>basically dumber than Delongist or Sawickian thought or
>other western economist thought. The comedic exchange
>sought to continue the general bourgeois and western
>stereotype of communist and eastern thought as lacking
>critical capacity and sort of mindless brainwashed
>utterances. The underlying implication is of course
>that bourgeois and western thought is superior in these ways.
>
>Charles Brown

Max--

Is it that Mr. Brown does not know that my praise of "Max Sawicky thought"
was Lin Biao's--the fair-haired boy of the Cultural Revolution, Mao's
closest comrade-in-arms and designated successor (until that unfortunate
accident with those shoulder-launched rockets at the dinner
party)--introduction to _Quotations from Chairman Mao_ (with "Max Sawicky"
substituted for "Mao Zedong")?

How can anyone who has ever read the preface to _Quotations from Chairman
Mao_ deny that Maoist thought is characterized by a lack of critical
capacity? How can anyone deny that Maoist thought is characterized by
mindless brainwashed utterances?

Or is the idea to deny that there was ever such a person as Lin Biao,
closest comrade-in-arms and designated successor to Mao Zedong?

Brad DeLong