Re: [Marxism] Mao: Journey to the . . . Center of the Mind

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>Rounding out this week's assessments of the *effective* "Big Three", it is
my opinion that history's greatest loss (30 million deaths during the
Great Leap Forward famine) should be the occasion for some
*self-reflection* with respect to the thought of Mao Zedong, perhaps the
most "Americanist" of Third-International communists.<

Reply

Jeff, I thought history greatest crime was the 100 million deaths you
attribute to Stalin in a previous article. Although my continuous scan of 
material on
the Soviet period tend to reduce this figure by more than 70% - to the dismay
of Robert Conquest.

It is true that the US State department (in the early 1950s) correctly
characterized the revolution in China as a radical agrarian revolt, with 
ideological
communists - Marxists, in the leadership. Some where someone attributed to
Stalin the saying, "one death is a tragedy, ten million a statistic."

Just curious, who gets the villain of the century award? You do know that
awards for anything elevates one in history?

Presenting Stalin as a "country politician" was extremely clever and
insightful. One has to win votes and confidence in the game of politics. To win 
votes
and confidence the multitude must understand your meaning or rather, your
meaning must match their conceptions and framework of thinking.

I love theory but it wins no battles.

Melvin P.

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