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2617238 No.2617238 [Reply] [Original]

I brough Quotations from chairman Mao/the little red book out of being an ironic hipster but I'm reading it at random everyonce in a while

Who else here owns it or has read it?

>> No.2617242

It's probably excruciating. The Chinese are the most unimaginative of people.

>> No.2617244

Fuck your entry level shit.

I've got Zhou EnLai's little yellow book.

>> No.2617270

Mao was a tragic hero. Or a heroic villain. Either way, he wasn't Stalin.

>> No.2617271

^^ lol this is an incredible summary for so complex a person

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>>2617238
>Mao
>complex

>> No.2617641

>>2617270
>>Mao
>>heroic
I'm sure all the people he had starved to death, beaten to death, and shot in the back of the head for the crime of being educated agree.

>> No.2617655

>>2617641

He had starved to death? There was a famine. Do we blame the dust bowl on FDR?

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>>2617641
>Mao
>Not single handedly started a revolution with a bunch of farmers
>not a badass
>not readily admitting there are plente of Chinese people so a few deaths don't matter
>über as fuck.

>> No.2617722

>>2617270

I'd recommend you look up the Great Leap Forward.

Once you're done coming to terms with how much of a clusterfuck that was, remember that that was a case of the Chinese Government ACTUALLY TRYING TO HELP.

>> No.2617730

>>2617655

No, because FDR did not cause the Dust Bowl almost entirely through his own actions.

>> No.2617736

>>2617660

Does forcing thousands of young girls to have sex with him and then giving them all STDs count as Uber Tier too?

A few deaths? How about mass fucking murder?

>> No.2617740

You should stop trying to discuss Mao, or any controversial figure. Propaganda (on all sides) killed them as legitimate figures long ago. You can't know the truth of them, so you should stop talking.

>> No.2617741

>>2617736
Don't hate bro. Mass murder is edgy when you're a communist.

>> No.2617756

>>2617740

So we should just say "Oh well, there's some propaganda going on here, we can never discuss this again". Bullshit. You have to at least make an attempt at cutting through the lies to find the truth, and accept the truth when you find it.

Accept that Chairman Mao killed over a million people by not understanding how steel refining, agriculture, or ecology worked. (lol kill all sparrows they eat seeds=nothing eating locusts=OH GOD LOCUSTS) and get the fuck over it.

>> No.2617758

Killing of loads of Chinese people will in most cases be directly benificial to China. Look at the greater picture, sentimentalists.

>> No.2617760

>>2617736
Yes, it does. Well, not necessarily the STD's. Babies would be better. Which probably happened too.

Mass murder is but a few deaths for a man with a vision and his eyes on the horizon. Want to make an omelette, break eggs, etc.

>> No.2617763

Communists are so full of the milk of human kindness, so eager to make your omelette, that to make your omelette, you overlook the fact that you are breaking one hell of a lot of eggs...and for all those lives consigned to the trash heap, all those unmarked graves...they haven't even produced an omelette.

Communism is religion at its worst, a No True Scotsman that will never come, wrapped in circular reasoning and backed with guns and truncheons.