"Refuse Fascism" organizer had nothing but praise for this statue of mass-murderer Mao Tse-tung

RevCom.us ^ | October 19, 2008 | Li Onesto

[ETL]

Revolution #145, October 19, 2008

“Art and China’s Revolution”
at the Asia Society Museum

An Unofficial Guide to the Exhibit

by Li Onesto

Take the 68th Street subway exit on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and walk over to Park Avenue. Two blocks north, on the street divider in the middle of four lanes of heavy traffic, a 10-foot-high steel sculpture of a Mao jacket greets you. Then on the building to the right is a big banner with a drawing of Mao Tsetung surrounded by images of workers, soldiers and youth marching with red flags, Red Books and rifles. This is the outside introduction to a new exhibit at the Asia Society Museum titled: “Art and China’s Revolution.”

In the next couple of months, tens of thousands of drivers will zoom past the huge Mao jacket, prompting many to do a double take. It will jog some people’s memories back to the ’60s when millions of people around the world, including here in the United States, looked to socialist China as a truly liberating society. For some it might bring to mind Andy Warhol’s pop-art image of Mao, which you occasionally still see on t-shirts and greeting cards.

After being bombarded by decades of being told that “communism is dead,” most people who drive or walk by will probably consider these artistic references as icons of “the failure of socialism.” But for those who actually go through the revolving glass doors of the museum and see the exhibit, this can be an opportunity to examine and think more about what Mao and the Cultural Revolution and socialism are really all about—and to look at, and reconsider, the “accepted wisdom” on the effect this historic struggle had on art and artists; and in turn, the role art and artists played in this historic struggle. ..."

Much more at link below.

http://revcom.us/a/145/art_revolution_china-en.html

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Same organization (RevCom.us) put out this regarding the recent controversies...

Keep in mind as you're reading that Mao Zedong murdered many millions more people than did the National Socialist/Nazi Hitler regime, by a factor of at least three.

Take Down the Confederate Monuments—and Shut Down the White-Supremacist Fascists!

May 17, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

 

Around 100 racists rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the night of Saturday, May 13. They railed against the city’s plans to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee—who led a war to defend and expand the enslavement of Black people—from a public park. The crowd carried torches that evoked a KKK lynch mob, and chanted “We [white people] will not be replaced” and “Blood and Soil” (a slogan from the Nazi German regime that carried out the genocidal slaughter of six million Jews and millions of other people in the mid-20th century). ..."

http://revcom.us/a/491/take-down-the-confederate-monuments-en.html

[RegulatorCountry]

I see the inspiration for an Obama memorial.

[ETL]

Here they are ("Refuse Fascism") outside friggin Fox News headquarters in Manhattan and STILL Fox doesn't tell their huge national audience who and what they are!

[ETL]

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[ETL]

From the Sept 2008 thru Jan 2009 exhibit in Manhattan...

[ETL]

I like the statue. It says, “Communism is an empty suit. With no legs, vision, ears or brain.”

Lol! Be nice if there was an inscription with those words.

[ETL]

[LucyT]

ETL wrote:

"... info that I've gathered and compiled on the RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party) and some of their various phony front groups over the years, including this latest front: "Refuse Fascism--Drive Out The Trump-Pence Regime" (this is the full title of the group/movement).

Check out article and comments by ETL.

Thanks ETL. Fantastic research as always.

[ETL]

Wonder how many realize, that in the 1930s, one of the first nations to send the Nationalist Chinese aid was Nazi Germany. Search on line and you can find photos of that time with Chinese in German uniforms and helmets. This was before Japan joined the Axis powers.

Thanks! I didn't know about that.

Came across these (below) on my images search. Obviously fairly recent. Haven't yet looked into it to see what it's about.

[ETL]

Thank YOU, LT!

[Vendome]

Tanks a lot...

[Krosan]

There is also a Lenin statue in Seattle. Should be beheaded too just like Mao here.

[Art in Idaho]

Thank you ETL for the excellent work. We really appreciate what you do. Most Americans have never seen this material.
Spread the word folks!

[ETL]

I noticed someone added to the keywords, "Unite The Right".

My take on that is that the founder of that highly suspicious event (Jason Kessler) was/is a willing stooge of the far left, planted there to ignite a major "race war". Well, actually a communist revolution, as revolutionaries, like the Revolutionary Communist Party referred to above, as their own writings confirm, look for ANY opportunity or excuse to launch their long-sought overthrow of the American government.

For much more on the *Liberal* political leanings of the UTR founder, Jason Kessler, check out this other thread from a week or so ago...

A Historical Perspective On Mass Violence [by Jason Kessler, UTR organizer]

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3578699/posts

[bitt]

remarkable. thanks!

[The Westerner]

“rethink” Communism? Let me think—back in the 70’s they said 100 millon dead under Mao. In rethinking it, probably closer to 150 mill.

[The Westerner]

“rethink” Communism? Let me think—back in the 70’s they said 100 millon dead under Mao. In rethinking it, probably closer to 150 mill.

[AdmSmith]

Are they for real or is it an art project?

[PGalt]

Thanks so much for the ping, LucyT.

Epic thread, ETL. Possibly your best work on this forum, ever. Thank YOU!

BUMP-TO-THE-TOP!

[PGalt]

BUMP-TO-THE-TOP!