The American who joined MAO
09-08-2015, 08:56 AM
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The American who joined MAO
Meet the American Who Joined Mao?s Revolution | War Is Boring
An amazing and interesting story that covers a lot of ground.
An amazing and interesting story that covers a lot of ground.
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Meet the American Who Joined Mao?s Revolution | War Is Boring
An amazing and interesting story that covers a lot of ground.
An amazing and interesting story that covers a lot of ground.
“I had been a true Leninist,” he says, which meant he believed that to establish a perfect democracy one had to first create a perfect dictatorship. But his years in China led him to believe that dictatorship only leads to dictatorship, and that Mao’s ascendance to power is more than enough evidence for it.
09-08-2015, 10:23 AM
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He paid a high price to learn this simple truth:
“I had been a true Leninist,” he says, which meant he believed that to establish a perfect democracy one had to first create a perfect dictatorship. But his years in China led him to believe that dictatorship only leads to dictatorship, and that Mao’s ascendance to power is more than enough evidence for it.
“I had been a true Leninist,” he says, which meant he believed that to establish a perfect democracy one had to first create a perfect dictatorship. But his years in China led him to believe that dictatorship only leads to dictatorship, and that Mao’s ascendance to power is more than enough evidence for it.
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