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To: stan_sipple
I had a grad school classmate from then red china in the mid-80’s. She said when all the chinese grad students arrived in America, their consular personnel cautioned them not to take Mao’s writings on the urban proletariat too literally

Can you explain that for those of us that don't study the little Red Book?

18 posted on 04/09/2008 3:22:21 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Party ahead of principles; eventually you'll be selling out anything to anyone for the right price.)
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To: Centurion2000

Remember Pol Pot?
He and his Khmer Rouge took Mao’s urban “cleansing” very seriously.
The city dwellers of Cambodia were either slaughtered (the educated ones were first)or driven into the countryside to be slave farmers who were murdered at the slightest hint of sloth or lack of “motivation.” (”The Killing Fields”)
The mostly adolescent “Red Guard” of Chairman Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” butchered urban denizens by the millions in the 60s in an effort to “cleanse” the cities of “counterevolutionaries” suspected of Western thinking.
The peasants were the only one’s to be trusted,all others were to be killed or “re-educated.”
Mao,Hitler and Stalin murdered more people in the 20th Century than 90% of the total populations of any individual nation on earth today.
Of course,all three were ethnic variations of socialist rule at it’s zenith.
Our liberals still have a ways to go,albeit not from lack of trying.


24 posted on 04/09/2008 3:51:07 PM PDT by Happy Rain
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