>The Cultural Revolution was all the result of one guy?
The Great Purge was all the result of one guy?
The Holocaust was all the result of one guy?
Your point?
>--- 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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