Comparing Mao to Hitler

[Henry C.K. Liu]

This type of argument is perverse.  What else is a preface supposed to do but
to be enthusiastically supportive?
The lampoons showed only the defective logic of its authors.
Ywe Lin Baio was a Communist,. Yes, Lin Baio wordhip Mao and followed Mao's
every word.
That make Mao wrong?  Hopeless!
Notice the style of addressing Max to target Charles.
Charles, there will always be idiotic bigots in academia.

Henry C.K. Liu

Brad De Long wrote:


> 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