Pluted Pup
2024-08-27 01:42:22 UTC
Yet if few of the Western Communist parties were willing to reject
the USSR and follow Mao, there were plenty of Establishment
Leftists who were willing to sing the praises of Mao, and being
a Maoist in academia has never had the stigma of being, for
example, a Conservative. When Mao died Australian Labor
Party luminaries memorialised him as a great and humane
statesmen. Australian Labor leader Gough Whitlam said: 'Under
Mao's leadership, the Chinese people found the strength for a
prodigious effort of revolutionary struggle... he was the authentic
father of his people and the new China'. Australian Labor Party
deputy leader Tom Uren said: 'Mao was a great leader, a brilliant
revolutionary thinker... an outstanding patriot... by the people of
China he was not only respected, he was loved'. Liberal party
and later Independent Member of Parliament, Billy Wentworth,
on the other hand, was more precise in his estimation of Mao:
Maoism has subjected the Chinese people to an alien
ideology and has denied them all their traditional life
and culture. It has demanded the rejection of all family
ties and accepted decencies, culminating in its assault on
Confucianism. For religion it has substituted the ritual
nonsense of the LITTLE RED BOOK...
-- from The Psychotic Left, by Kerry Bolton (2012?) page 146
the USSR and follow Mao, there were plenty of Establishment
Leftists who were willing to sing the praises of Mao, and being
a Maoist in academia has never had the stigma of being, for
example, a Conservative. When Mao died Australian Labor
Party luminaries memorialised him as a great and humane
statesmen. Australian Labor leader Gough Whitlam said: 'Under
Mao's leadership, the Chinese people found the strength for a
prodigious effort of revolutionary struggle... he was the authentic
father of his people and the new China'. Australian Labor Party
deputy leader Tom Uren said: 'Mao was a great leader, a brilliant
revolutionary thinker... an outstanding patriot... by the people of
China he was not only respected, he was loved'. Liberal party
and later Independent Member of Parliament, Billy Wentworth,
on the other hand, was more precise in his estimation of Mao:
Maoism has subjected the Chinese people to an alien
ideology and has denied them all their traditional life
and culture. It has demanded the rejection of all family
ties and accepted decencies, culminating in its assault on
Confucianism. For religion it has substituted the ritual
nonsense of the LITTLE RED BOOK...
-- from The Psychotic Left, by Kerry Bolton (2012?) page 146