The implication is that Max and Brad D. think more critically and mindfully than Maoists and Mao. If they are making fun of Maoist failings in this way, obviously they do not think they have the same failings, no ? It is sort of a typical western liberal rap on communists.
So, the comparison between western liberals and Maoists as critical thinkers comes about in this way in part.
The more substantive comparison is implied in another way. It is the comparison between Mao and his western liberal contemporaries, say the Rockfellers, Roosevelt,Churchhill, Truman, et al. , the heads of the bourgeois regimes of that era and all of their intellectual sychophants. We do not find Brad and Max doing parodies of these dictators and their regimes. Nor does Brad calculate the millions of people who died prematurely because of the economic policies of these liberal western regimes, as he does with the People's Republic.
Charles Brown
>>> "rc-am" <rcollins at netlink.com.au> 06/10/99 12:32AM >>>
>This thread ( or is that the other list?) has been on the lack of critical
thinking in Maoism, implying that western liberals are more critical
thinkers.
where/when was this implication made?
Angela --- rcollins at netlink.com.au