I once read a biography of Mao and it was telling that he was addicted to revolution for the sake of revolution and this is what alienated him in the end from the Chinese officials. However Communist, they didn’t like the constant upheaval and simply wanted to get back to rebuilding society. The Cultural Revolution wasn’t a way to just recreate Chinese culture, but for Madame Mao to eliminate her tawdry past and kill people who knew too much about her past affairs with both married and single men.
Karl Marx’s tomb in Highgate Cemetery, London, UK. Inscription reads “Workers of all lands unite” and “The Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways — The point however is to change it.”
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“Change you can beleive in.”
Barack Obama, before everything else is a dedicated and committed Marxist revolutionary.