Is Maoism Coming to America? | 5 Minute Videos
If you think Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution is ancient history, think again. The tactics Mao used to take over and ruin China in the 20th century are alive and well in America, just under a different name. James Lindsay explains.
Transcript:
Mao Zedong, the murderous dictator of Communist China from 1949 to 1976 was probably responsible for more death and misery than any single human being ever.
If you think Mao’s monstrous reign is “ancient history” and has no relevance to the world we live in today… think again.
The tactics Mao used to take over and ruin China in the middle of the twentieth century are the same tactics the modern left is using to take over and ruin America in the twenty-first century. Mao called this Marxism with “[Chinese] characteristics.”
What we now call “woke”—the radical leftism that tells us that men give birth, that to be colorblind is to be racist, that social workers should replace police officers—could easily be called “Maoism with American characteristics.”
So, let’s define Maoism, and then we’ll get to its “American characteristics.”
In 1949 Mao took over China and held power for three decades using a very simple tactic, the dark art of demonizing your enemy. I call it “hatecraft.”
What Mao did was divide everyone in China into two categories: “the people,” who agreed with his agenda, and “the enemies of the people,” who did not agree with his agenda.
For the enemies, no quarter was given. They were blocking progress, so they had to be destroyed; they weren’t even considered people. “Not to have a correct political orientation,” Mao said, “is like not having a soul.” Anything Mao did to them was, therefore, justified.
These enemies—prosperous farmers, landowners, and other so-called “counter-revolutionaries”—were prohibited from earning a living, were subjected to random arrest, and had their property confiscated. Many went to “thought reform” prisons to “wash their brains” of their incorrect values.
And those were the lucky ones.
Countless more were just simply executed for having the “wrong” opinion.
America is not Mao’s China. No one is being lined up and shot for their “counter-revolutionary” beliefs, but the tactics—the hatecraft—employed by the American left borrow heavily from Mao’s playbook.
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