Posted on 12/10/2006 6:57:42 PM PST by exposing_the_left
Re: NY-Times article: China Pursues Major Role in Particle Physics
December 06, 2006
That Lovable Old Coot, Mao Zedong
Yesterday's New York Times gave noted Chinese parliamentarian Mao Zedong a warm tonguebath of affection, in the Science Section, of all places. The lead story, "China Pursues Major Role in Particle Physics," made Mao sound like a lovable old coot full of folk wisdom:
"Mao Zedong dreamed of splitting an electron.
This was no idle diversion. According to natural dialectics, which formed the philosophical underpinnings of Marxism, the entire universe, from top to bottom, was seething with tension and change. As a result, Mao thought, nature should be infinitely divisible.
'Take a footlong stick and remove half every day. In 10,000 years it will not run out,' Mao, who rarely missed the chance to chat up physicists, often said. 'This is truth. If you don't believe it, you may test it. If there is an end, there is no science.'"
Never a place to miss a pop-culture reference, The Times illustrated the story with Warholesque graphic of the Glorious Leader, here:
http://www.keshertalk.com/images/blogpix/mao.190.jpg
But Mao's wonderful influence on science got disrupted by something called the Cultural Revolution, as the Times neatly summarized:
"But Mao's Cultural Revolution, which was unleashed in 1966, closed universities and journals and set back Chinese physics for a generation."
So that's what the Cultural Revolution was about, some padlocked schools. Now I get it.
Or maybe I don't. I think the Times skipped a few salient details in its back rub for a totalitarian's image.
This Wiki entry gives a good overview of the era, complete with destruction of historical artifacts, social chaos, repression of minorities, and a death toll of 500,000 between 1966 and 1969. To give the barest flavor of the times, for the Times:
Crimes against the government were brutally and publicly punished. People were forced to walk through the streets naked, were flogged publicly, or forced, some report, to sit in the jetliner position for hours. Many deaths occurred in police custody, although they were often covered up as "suicides". People had to carry two or more copies of Mao's Little Red Book to avoid being accused of not supporting Mao. Numerous individuals were accused, often on the flimsiest of grounds, of being foreign spies; to have, or have had, any contact with the world outside of China, could be extremely dangerous. Accusations were often based upon 'symbolic' language or gestures, such as the omission of certain strokes from a written character, or the placing of a picture of Mao in a subordinate position in a room.
The Times of course had all this background, but gave Mao the benefit of a doubt. A man who tells clever stories about sticks deserves that and a cool picture, doesn't he?
Van | 12/06/06 at 07:12 AM | Categories: WWIV
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Comments: We must never forget the millions murdered by Mao's minions !!
Paul | December 6, 2006 10:39 AM
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Original NY-Slimes article: China Pursues Major Role in Particle Physics:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/science/05china.html? _r=1&oref=slogin
On a related topic...
From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party / (RCP) :
(rwor.org is the website of the RCP)
"World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime" / "Bush Step Down!":
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm
Who Hated (our) Bush Step Down Ad in the New York Times?
http://rwor.org/a/028/who-hated-bush-ad.htm
John Conyers' endorsement of the "World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime" Maoist movement (names are in alphabetical order-- Conyers' name immediately follows Ward Churchill's) :
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2
Democrat congressman / soon-to-be chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr, Oct 5, 2006 *SPEECH* to the Revolutionary Communist Party / World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime organization! Note: This guy Conyers will soon be in charge of a powerful governmental committee which will likely be investigating the Bush administration, yet is on record as giving a speech to a Maoist- revolutionary organization! Where is our wonderful scandal-seeking media when we need em!
http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3114&Itemid=243
Mission Statement of the Revolutionary Communist Party, parent of the World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime Maoist organization:
"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power! We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning. And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle." :
http://rwor.org/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm
And...
"Tearing Up the U.S. Paper Tiger in Korea: How 300,000 Chinese Troops Snuck into Korea and Kicked the Ass of the U.S. Armed Forces" RW #1059, June 18, 2000:
http://rwor.org/a/v22/1052-059/1059/korea.htm
"World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime":
(rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party)
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm -
The old murderer is deader than a doornail and turning to dust in China.
"...gave noted Chinese parliamentarian Mao Zedong a warm tonguebath of affection"
A picture that is now stuck in my mind. Thanks a lot!
Ewwww....
The Times believes that Bush lied and thousands died. They now don't care when Mao lied and tens of millions died.
OK, you get the award for the best title for a thread this year. And a very funny opening line, too.
At the same time, many Freepers buy the MSM's view of Pinochet (who was a hero).
>The old murderer is deader than a doornail and turning to dust in China.
Yet he still has a powerful influence over millions of people worldwide. Ain't that something.
Same New York Times where Walter Duranty, working in Moscow wrote these famous statements:
There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be."
--New York Times, Nov. 15, 1931, page 1
"Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda."
--New York Times, August 23, 1933
"Enemies and foreign critics can say what they please. Weaklings and despondents at home may groan under the burden, but the youth and strength of the Russian people is essentially at one with the Kremlin's program, believes it worthwhile and supports it, however hard be the sledding."
--New York Times, December 9, 1932, page 6
"You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs."
--New York Times, May 14, 1933, page 18
"There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition."
--New York Times, March 31, 1933, page 13
This at a time when 25,000 people were dying daily.
see: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/791vwuaz.asp?ZoomFont=YES
And yet, many people from mainland China venerate Mao even today.
Chinese people that I have talked to are not proud of the cultural revolution, but they still look at Mao as sort of the George Washington of their country.
I liked William F. Buckley's description of Mao as "the greatest genocidal maniac in human history." I'm guessing the Times would not be comfortable with that description. They loved him when he was alive, we have to expect they will still love him dead.
>Same New York Times where Walter Duranty,
>working in Moscow wrote these famous statements:
>There is no famine or actual starvation
>nor is there likely to be."
>--New York Times, Nov. 15, 1931, page 1
>"Any report of a famine in Russia today
>is an exaggeration or malignant propaganda."
>--New York Times, August 23, 1933
>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/791vwuaz.asp?ZoomFont=YES
Terrific link, gb! Thanks!
LC
That may be somethin' but it sure ain't unique. Look at Marx, Lenin, and our all time champion Che. 20th century icons, all.
>OK, you get the award for the best title for a thread this year.
>And a very funny opening line, too.
Thanks, but I can't take credit for either the "warm tonguebath" or "old coot" line. They came from the article I forwarded. :(
Yeah, after all what's 70 million murdered plus or minus a million. No problemo. Viva la Mao.
"And yet, many people from mainland China venerate Mao even today."
People in Viet Nam, particularly the young, venerate Ho Chi Minh. He didn't murder as many as Mao only because Viet Nam isn't as big as China. It's all about the propaganda machines, the schools. Our schools in the U.S. have become propaganda machines just like the madrassas in the Middle East. OUR madrassas are filling the young skulls full of mush with hate, multi-culti BS and Democrap politix.
"They loved him when he was alive, we have to expect they will still love him dead."
Though I didn't love them when they were alive, there are a lot of Democrats I love seeing dead. I'd like to add some more, a few people representing the state of Mass, a couple people representing the state of NY, a few representing Kalifornia, Nevada, Illinois, and on and on.
I read a book about China entitled "Wild Swans" by Jung Chang; it concerns the history of China during three generations of a family, as recounted by the women of those three generations. That time span includes the rule of Mao. It is fascinating. Anyone who admires Mao should read the book - it will open your eyes very wide. This is the 3rd copy of that book I've purchased, the first two copies I lent out and they never came back.
I also have, but haven't begun to read, another book entitled simply "Mao," also by Jung Chang assisted by Jon Halliday. I'm sure it also is a sincere, sad and enlightening book.
These people (the NY times) are both evil and insane.
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