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China's one child policy is from the 1980's. Mao was out of power and dead by that point.
by edge17 8y ago
China's one child policy is from the 1980's. Mao was out of power and dead by that point.
- tomohawk 8y agoMy mistake. The guys following Mao were completely different - not following the same ideology at all.
- tomjakubowski 8y agoUh, you're being sarcastic but that is true. Deng Xiaoping is about as close to Mao ideologically as Trump is to Obama. The revisionists and/or reformers survived the cultural revolution and won the power struggle after Mao's death.
- sidlls 8y agoTrump is actually quite close to Obama in ideology. They employ different methods in service to basically the same masters.
- mhneu 8y agoTrump is closer to Mao than he is Obama - in Trump's corruption, attacks on the media, attacks on the educated and intellectuals, attacks on minorities, boosting of racial nationalism, and attempts to steal tax dollars and profit off his leadership role. The parties in the US are wildly different - one party is the party of billionaires, and you can tell because they pursue tax cuts for the very rich and cutting the social safety net for everyone else.
- tomohawk 8y agoPretty low bar. "Hey, Deng is better than this guy who killed millions!" Let's check in on how these "reformers" are doing, shall we? http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/china-s-xinjiang-province-a-surveillance-state-unlike-any-the-world-has-ever-seen-a-1220174.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/china-s-xinjiang-p... Sounds like paradise.
- Leary 8y agoI think the reason people down-voted you was because you attributed many perceived policy faults of the Chinese Communist Party over many decades to Mao himself. Rather, a careful analysis of history would show that there's profound difference in how each generation of CCP leader ruled the country, apart from the generalizations one could make about communist ideology as a whole.
- tomohawk 8y agoAnd yet, they still put the image of a mass murderer on their currency. Can you imagine the EU putting Hitler on currency? That says a lot.
- dang 8y agoYou've been doing ideological flamewar in this thread. That's not what this site is for, regardless of how right you are, so could you please not? Ditto, and especially, for nationalistic flamewar.