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RE: Confronting the Dragon - Part 2: The Quad
Mao said "political power issues from the barrel of a gun" and then took away everyone's guns and killed millions of people.
Mao said "political power issues from the barrel of a gun" and then took away everyone's guns and killed millions of people.
Yeah. Some of his quotes are just downright chilling.
He also said "after the enemies with guns have been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns; they are bound to struggle desperately against us, and we must never regard these enemies lightly. If we do not now raise and understand the problem in this way, we shall commit the gravest of mistakes."
That was his report to the Second Plenary of the Seventh Central Committee of the CCP, March 5 1949.
He broadcast his murderous intent right out in the open, and nobody questioned him.
The most frightening thing about Mao though, wasn't the millions he killed, or the fact that he was ice-cold enough to use high-handed rhetoric about "ending the oppression of the rich" to try and justify it. It was the fact that he actually believed his own rhetoric. He actually thought he was on some kind of crusade to wage the Human Race's final "great equalizing class war."
History is full of villains who died with no regrets of their villainy, but Mao Zedong, the biggest mass murderer in the history of the Human Race, died firmly entrenched in the delusion that he had lived his life as a force for good.
there are some funny Mao/ Hillary mash ups online, that's a good quote. I'll be sure to use it in the future