The Cultural Revolution was all the result of one guy?
--- Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
> Yoshie wrote:
> >
> >...The question is why the Chinese people couldn't
> have a clarifying
> >debate, even a sharp conflict, that was focused
> _only on
> >politico-economic alternatives_ -- why the conflict
> took the form of
> >"cultural" revolution instead...
>
> 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
>
>
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