I'm ex sort of quasi-Maoist myself, many years back. We know more than we did then. In those days, lots of reputable info on Maoist China made it look better than it was. Mind you, despite his (and the CCP's) crimes, insanities, and errors, the accomplishments of Maoist China were considerable, just as those of the USSR are not to be denigrated merely because, for complex reasons, the effort failed and self-destructed. Unlike China, I might add, which has not imploded, although I don'tthink there are many who consider it an attractive model anymore.
Serve the people!
jks
>From: Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Mao is Dead -- Be Like Him!
>Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:46:12 -0400
>
> >Windy Storm (unfortunate tag) . . .
>
> > jks
>
>Sounds like a stripper I once saw in my early 20s in some Jersey dive near
>the boardwalk. She had no natural rhythm and forced herself to appear
>sultry
>and alluring amid trashy disco music, peeling wallpaper, faded beer signs,
>warped wood paneling and a bartender with one eye.
>
>Is it me or are Maoists just totally fucked in the head? I mean, you've got
>Mao, a fat, mass murdering megalomaniac who passed venereal disease on to a
>number of young women, Pol Pot, a Year Zero Nazi whose accomplishments are
>well known, and the good folks of Peru's Shining Path. Not the best
>advertisement for "world revolution" by any stretch -- unless you like
>being
>ruled by murderous, diseased egomaniacs.
>
>DP
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