Mao Tse Dunn looks kinda cute in a Mao Suit like all the Chinese wore back in the romantic era of Chairman Mao.
Obama’s mentor is Mugabe of Zimbabwe.
We are rapidly reaching the same level of corruption and destruction.
Mao and Mother Teresa did share one thing: they did not shy away from suffereing.
Mao, when he caused it on a massive scale, and Teresa when she healed it in others.
She could just as easily have cited the Marquis de Sade if she had wanted to substantiate that philosophy.
She was being ironic about Mother Teresa. Dunn is her polar opposite.
Of course, Anita Dunn obviously doesn't support killing 60-70 million people.
Slow down Grasshopper. She's an ardent supporter of abortion.
Here is what Mother Teresa says about abortion-
“But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?”
Any plans to honor Mother Teresa the same way?
My gosh... how we've sunken so low as a country that extolls the virtues of freedom, liberty and a lasting republic.
I am not so sure.
I was once enamored of Chairman Mao. His philosophy was introduced to me by a Black Panther from Philadephia named Van in 1969. Van gave me the little red book and a red and gold Mao button. I had been flirting with Marxism-Leninism and Trotskyism, and Maoism seemed a logical step forward, as he had been the only successful revolutionary since Lenin.
Van was subsequently purged from the Panthers when they abandoned Mao for Kim il Sung, as if he was actually different from Mao.
We joined our little cadre with Bob Avakian’s Bay Area Revolutionary Union, which soon dropped the Bay Area and became just “RU”, but remained a splinter group, one of many, in the ever splintering left, all vying for recognition by the Black Panthers.
We spent time studying and discussing “Fanshen”, a book about the land reform activities in a Chinese village after the Maoist takever, with its author, Bill Hinton, who was an observer in the village.
He (Hinton) made no bones about the abuses of power by those in charge of redistributing the land, but could not see why it happened, and neither could the rest of us. We thought that revolutionaries should always act in the best interests of the people and never saw how absolute, and absolutely corrupting was the power that was taken by the revolutionaries.
But, Maoism, and other Marxist permutations, was loosing favor as the libertinism (not libertarianism) in the wake of Woodstock was becoming the dominant cultural theme, and the left discovered how to take over the system from within, by quietly getting into decision making positions in the media, the government, and large foundations, getting control of information and interpretations, large amounts of cash, education, and government power.
They had radicalized large numbers of young people through the anti-war movement, and those are their footsoldiers in the long march through the West’s institutions.
They increasingly have control of the guns, from which Mao’s version of political power grows, but it was a horrible strategic mistake on the part of the administrations officials to openly embrace Mao. We now have that as a club to use against them in the same way the left has always used the fascism club against their enemies.
Mao used the post war chaos in China, the war weakened state of the Koumintang government, the unwillingness of the West to fight another war so soon after the big one, and Chinese cultural xenophobia to take over and murder millions in the process.
Communism/socialism always seems to produce a Stalin, a Hitler, a Mao, or a Kim il Sung. It’s the dirty little secret that the left tries to ignore - that communism/socialism places absolute power in the hands of a few individuals, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, or as Dune author Frank Herbert put it “Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of entrenched bureaucracy to its subject population. Even the spoils systems are preferable because levels of tolerance are lower and the corrupt can be thrown out periodically. Entrenched bureaucracy seldom can be touched short of violence. Beware when Civil Service and Military join hands.”
Obama’s proposed domestic force is that joining hands of the civil service and the military. Can we be anything but afraid?
Mao Tse Dunn looks kinda cute in a Mao Suit like all the Chinese wore back in the romantic era of Chairman Mao.
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Exactly, way too much intellectual thought put into that lecture for her to try to claim she was just making a joke, a la Atwater (lie) or anyone else.
It was incredibly frustrating to have O'Really and Ann Coulter dismiss Dunn and her speech to the students the way they did last night, both considering it no big deal, Coulter even saying, "I've quoted Mao myself." Totally missing the whole point Glenn made with his showing us the video, oblivious to the point the doctor makes her -- her proclaiming Mao as one of the two political philosophers she turns to most, and then going on to tell graduating students to do as he did, a sort of *think outside the box* by highlighting his success, no matter how many millions died because of it. Totally outrageous and far from the irrelevance that O'Really and Coulter think it.
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The irony here is that if Mother Teresa was in China, she would have to be a member of the underground Church. If she was discovered, then Mao would have killed her.
And the author knows that, how? I think that many in the O Admin wouldn't shed a tear if those millions were conservative critics -- or old people (so useless and needy of resources, you know).