Comparing Mao to Hitler

Henry C.K. Liu hliu at mindspring.com
Tue Jun 8 15:47:34 PDT 1999


Another confession! Max will distort history to satisfy a personal vendetta. He really ought to apologize to the list for wasting the time of all those who took him seriously.

Henry C.K. Liu

Max Sawicky wrote:


> > Look Max, I'm no Maoist. The Chinese CP has done a lot of
> brutal things in
> its reign. But this harping on the alleged childishness or
> whatever of
> their prose style is pretty childish in itself. It's not easy to
> run a poor
> country of 1 billion people surrounded by hostile foreign powers.
> We can
> sit here all we like and pontificate about their crimes and
> blunders, but
> that's really easy for us to do here in Imperialism Central. For
> all the
> crimes and blunders, I think the Chinese revolution was a good
> thing, and I
> think the same aboout the Russian revolution. . . . >>
>
> Believe it or not, with this last sentence I actually don't
> disagree, in the ex ante sense that not knowing the outcome with
> certainty, I could appreciate these projects at their inception
> and for some time after. We could differ amicably on when the
> ideal bail-out date was. As for harping, my parody was not
> directed primarily against Maoist rhetoric in the first place,
> but against the statements (and implicitly, the politics) of
> certain list-members directed against the persons of other list
> members, including me. That these others try to wrap themselves
> in the struggles of the oppressed is a mere distraction.
>
> mbs



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