>>> Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> 06/08/99 10:22AM >>>
Re:
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>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?
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Charles: How can anyone who reads "On Contradiction" or "On Practice" think that Maoist thought lacks critical capacity ? Are you doing an imitation of a bourgeois dogmatist who fails to understand that the most up to date criticism in thought must be combined with action in practical-critical activity , a la Marx in the Theses on Feuerbach, brilliantly and mindfully expounded and expanded by Mao in "On Practice" ? "On Contradiction" is so much more mindful and critical than what Mao's detractors on this list write on this list. Changing the world is the real criticism, and Mao is way ahead of y'all in that.
How can anyone who reads typical western political economic tracts think that they are not characterized by mindless , brainwashed fantasies , and misleading propaganda and ideology ?
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?
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Charles: The idea is that it strains credulity to think that someone with low capacity for critical thinking could achieve what Mao did. By his combined theory and actions in the world. Mao exhibited much more critical capacity than the overwhelming majority of bourgeois academic political economists. And he wrote about this with a very active mind in "On Practice."