Wednesday, May 28, 2014

How the west embraced Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book

At the peak of its popularity, Mao's bible was the most printed book in the world. It attained the status of a sacred, holy text during the Cultural Revolution, and retains its place among western devotees.
Reading the essays brought together here, you would hardly realise that Mao was responsible for one of the biggest human catastrophes in recorded history. Launched by him in 1958, the Great Leap Forward cost upwards of 45 million human lives. “When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death,” Mao observed laconically. “It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.”

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mao is alive and well, living in the hearts and minds of all of the worlds radicals, including the 1%. Correction: Satan is alive and well.

SWIFT said...

No surprises here. The left always embraces low-life scum. They would not want the mass murderers as neighbors in their gated communities, but would welcome them to live in ours. They do not see the lateness of the hour. They do not see that it would be wise, to put as much distance as possible, between them and their written support of commie ideals. This is good. I want them to keep identifying themselves.

Anonymous said...

Oppression, torture, theft, rape and murder....

I'd say that make THEM, the low life scum of the universe.