Tempest62 » 18 Jan 2024, 4:12 pm » wrote: ↑
The ruling party of the PRC calls itself as the Communist Party of China(CPC), because it would like Chinese people and the rest of the world to believe although it is a commuist party, it belongs to China first and has always put China’s interests first. The western media, call it as the Chinese Communist Party, because they regard it as a communist party first, and then it was established and operated in China. And from my point of view, if you are familar with Chinese history, you should have known in quite a long time this party has put interests of the CPSUand Comintern(i.e, the so-called communism cause) over those of China , and it never covered its status as a proxy of the CPSU and Comintern .
So it is more accurate to call it as the CCP instead of the CPC.
This brings up a very interesting question.
Mao killed tens of millions, and
not by accident, the first to go were the intellectuals. All of them. This means engineers, civil servants, mathematicians, history professors, gymnastic instructors, bankers and lawyers, even doctors - the entire educated cohort. It left with country with NOTHING - just kings and peasants, masters and serfs, leaders and followers.
And a fresh start with a blank page.
Maybe this is only for nerds, but the question is: How familiar was Mao with Qin Shi Huang? Qin Shi Huang gave birth to the first great Chinese empire, declaring he had a "Mandate from Heaven" (side note - for R. Suave, a "man-date from Heaven is a rent boy). "Qin" is pronounced "Chin," and "China" is named for this great emperor.
To make China Great Again, Qin murdered off millions and burned every book he could get his hands on. And then, from scorched earth, Qin created the greatest and most populous empire the world had ever seen. Within his own lifetime, he brought all of the war lords under a single government, built the great wall, linked all of the provinces by way of a massive and well-travelled canal system, standardized the weights and measures of every province, standardized the logographs, and brought every province under a single currency.
I am not recommending him for a place in heaven - but the mother **** definitely deserves some statuary.
All great men commit great crimes. Scant few create a great legacy. China had several centuries of greatness thanks to Qin. I'm not defending his methods - but to the degree that ends justify means, that brutal bastard is one justified mother ****.
Anyway, I think there is little doubt that Mao - uneducated peasant that he was - knew his history and borrowed Qin's methods to what is shaping up to be excellent results. Mao murdered 60 millions. The system he built has pulled a thousand millions out of extreme poverty. What Mao did took a pair of balls for sure. I judge him neither ill nor well for it - my brain isn't big enough to judge the chairman.
By the same token, I look at the generation that subjected the american injuns to genocide with no great judgment of
their crimes. I know they did it so that THEIR children could inherit this nation, and not have to share it with stone aged savages who refused to get on board.
It is quite easy to judge others by a standard they would not even recognize - like when liberals call Kipling a racist or demand the removal of Washington's statues. I am reminded of a bible verse which advises us to judge a tree by its fruit. If we judge chairman mao or the founding generation in america by its fruit, its great crimes fade into the background.
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