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Look back 40 years to see how the humans spirit dealt with Mao's china http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/maos-great-leap-forward-kille

• contingencies 10y ago
  That was exactly my point - pretty well I'd say, 40 years later! I'm not championing countries here, but it's probably true to say that western views of Maoist China tend to lack breadth. For example I've personally video-interviewed people who had a great time being relocated for re-education in tropical paradise (despite the local ladies being off-limits), then spent years traveling around the country on the government's budget as lowly trade facilitators in the socialist planned economy! Besides, if we take China's cycle from wealthy and inward-looking to corrupt and despotic, through widespread opiate abuse (English-profiteering), war and revolution (Mao) to a complete social transformation (post-Mao), then isn't America at about opiate abuse, and due for a Mao? Oh wait, Trump... :)
  • abiox 10y ago
    > due for a Mao depends on whether that includes 45 million or so dead, i guess.
    • halfdan 10y ago
      Do we count the millions that have already been killed by US fought wars overseas in the last decade or so? Do we count the gun deaths?
      • abiox 10y ago
        this notion doesn't seem relevant. how does this relate?