Henry wrote: >The current direction of China is another issue which we have discussed at some >legenth on this and other lists. >This particularly debate is focused on an historical issue: whether Mao >purposefully murdered 30 million of his countrymen with an egotistic policy of >the Great Leap Forward. Professor DeLong, to substantiate his erroneous claim, >produced Lin Biao's preface to the Quotations From Mao as evidence of uncritical >thinking of Mao socialist thought. >Please read my post: Mao in the Chinese context, on the Marxism list, if you are >interested on the subject. > > >Henry C.K. Liu I was attempting to elicit clarifications from you regarding present day China compared with pre-Deng China. I am not discussing whether Mao led 30 million of his fellow nationals to the slaughter. I recall my suggesting that this particular debate was not terribly helpful (at least to me). What would be helpful to me is a statement regarding your views of the current Chinese administration in comparison with that of Mao's time. If that means resurrecting some points from the Marxism list, then by all means do so. There are those who subscribe to PEN-L who do not subscribe to the Marxism list. Why not forward your original post, referred to above? Michael
