The answer is straightforward and obvious: Stalinism. Mao, like Stalin, hated debate and all aspects of democratic process. From the "Poisonous Flowers" sequel to the"Hundred Flowers" months through the "Cultural Revolution" no form of public debate was tolerated. Deng, Liu Shao-chi (the President! of China), Lin Piao, Chou En-lai (Confucius), all were denounced (one murdered) and vilified, and not one word defending the viewpoint of these leaders of the Chinese Revolution was ever permitted public expression. The suppression of democracy among the populace was so complete that pathological idiocy, fomented by Mao and implemented by the spawn of the Party officialdom, could grip enough of a young generation to do enormous cultural, economic, and social destruction. The Chinese people resisted and finally, starting with the mass demonstrations following the death of Chou En-lai, ended that barbarism. The democratic upheaval reached the high marks of the Wall Poster movement and the Tiananmen occupation, only to be suppressed By Deng and his gang, whose ongoing Liberal Stalinism was and is perfectly expressed in their treatment of Zhao Ziyang, China's Dubcek. The Liberal combination of prosperity and repression has kept the lid on until now, but the rulers, by perpetually justifying themselves with the "danger" of "social upheaval" (Maoist prating about "Socialism" having become useless and even a little dangerous), admit that the democratic energies unleashed by China's revolutionary awakening are far from having exhausted themselves.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos