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Concerning Mao, let's not forget murdering over 70 million people. Correct idea? Correct practice? Correct dialectic? According to Chang and Halliday, Mao would add to the 5-year plans, 5-year "repression" plans, claiming on the eve of each new "red terror" that 5% (or 10% or 20%) of the Chinese population was reactionary and had to be eliminated. When party officials told him that taking away 60% of peasants' crops would result in mass starvation (38 million people died during the "great leap" forward and the "cultural revolution"), he would scream : "You cannot obey my orders because of your conscience ? What nonsense ! Conscience is anti-Marxist. Marxism is brutality ! Brutality and more brutality !" or "People will not obey us because they love us ! They will obey us because they are terrified of us !" or "Teenagers must become accustomed to brutality. They must become the most brutal element in our society.". etc. Correct idea? Correct practice? Correct dialectic? ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
