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Mao didn’t like the Soviets checking his poop while they snubbed him…I give Mao credit for being the guy who United China for the first time since the last Dynasty, good, bad or indifferent, he United Mainland China which had been fractured by The Alliance of 8 Nations during the Boxer Rebellion.
@mikestewart4752
8 сағат бұрын
“Cull ALL the Birds!”-Mao Zedong “Egg Fried Rice anyone?-Mao Anying “Me like left nostril most!”-Mao Xinyu “I’LL plan the economy!”-Mao Jinpork “China is safest county in world!”-Xu Ganlu “Corruption is rampant in China!”-Victor Gao “This is an isolated incident.” - Various CCP officials
@1wun1
2 сағат бұрын
"L.Mao" Mao Lafing
@jasonjean2901
6 сағат бұрын
This guest doesn't know enough about Chinese history to comment on how Chinese view ideologies. Confucianism was never introduced into the Chinese culture widely in its "pure form" as described by Confucius. It was almost immediately heavily modified by Menacus and then by Emperor Wudi himself before ever being introduced to mainstream Chinese culture. It has also been regularly modified, such as during the Song Dynasty. No one ever really cared about what Confucius actually originally taught. As such, why would the Chinese care about "pure Marxism"?
@shangcao1085
6 сағат бұрын
Best comments, well said
@GreatEditsEveryDay
5 сағат бұрын
sure you know more than a world-renowned expert and professor on the topic
@freedomworks3976
5 сағат бұрын
Lol 😂@@GreatEditsEveryDay
@jasonjean2901
4 сағат бұрын
@@GreatEditsEveryDay You need to be careful when you suggest he is an "expert" in everything he says. Based on his comments about China, he is obviously not an expert in modern Chinese history. Instead, he seems to be just another expert on the U.S.S.R., who is willing to talk a lot about China, while only having a superficial knowledge of it.
@johnalwang
4 сағат бұрын
@@GreatEditsEveryDay I am not sure if he can read the original Chinese history documents. If not he has no way to claim as an expert on China.
@GnomesRox
14 сағат бұрын
Yes! This is something that almost no one ever understands when people talk about Marx and communism. It's supposed to be born out of an already industrialized nation that has an abundance of resources and advanced systems of production. Creating communism from poverty was never in his analysis.
@croweater1
10 сағат бұрын
Like Venezuela?
@p1xelshooter287
10 сағат бұрын
so then it doesnt work lmaaooooooo most countries arent abundant in all its necessities
@therearenoshortcuts9868
10 сағат бұрын
you can't create communism from post-industrial societies yet... but you can use it as a cult to rally a pre-industrial classic peasant rebellion lol...
@GnomesRox
9 сағат бұрын
@@croweater1 Like basically every country that hijacked Marxism for their own political purposes. Venezuela was wealthy yes, but that was from its resources in oil not from being an industrialized nation. What's even more sad is that they were even terrible at production in spite of that resource.
@ethanfrye31
9 сағат бұрын
@@p1xelshooter287Russia is probably the most resource abundant nation on the planet. China is no slouch in resources. When does the excuses end?
@CrossCultural-c7f
3 сағат бұрын
My paternal grand mom would have died in China during the great leap backward if not for the repeal of the Magnuson Act in 1965.
@mikehanson9497
12 сағат бұрын
Something interesting I hear many people say (Chinese and non Chinese alike) is China has this ancient culture, 5000 years of continuity. Chinese culture was destroyed, erased, and reforged into something else under Mao’s reign and whatever China was before the CCP came to power does not even bear a superficial resemblance to what they were before it. The campaign against the Four Olds (old customs, old habits, old culture, and old ideas) effectively severed the link between what China was and what it turned into. It wasn’t just destruction of vases, paintings, manuscripts .. it was the wholesale reprogramming of an entire generation and those would couldn’t be reprogramed were killed. To use a more modern marxist phrase China is now “unburdened by what has been”. Ironically, for the CCP at any rate, the only link to traditional Chinese culture can be found in Taiwan.
@Jin-o9u
11 сағат бұрын
Bullshit. Taiwan lost it with their form of democracy. Mainland banish the serfdom system, the foot binding., and many more stupid old idees. Mainland more chinese than Taiwan will ever be. Taiwan can't even recognise what a women is. Lol. Some idee are stupid and therefor should be abolish. Taiwan has yet to abolish the feudal system. Mainland did 😂
@Jin-o9u
11 сағат бұрын
So Feudal system and foot binding is something to admire? Also you tell me how Taiwan has preserved the culture better than mainland?
@sliefox9453
6 сағат бұрын
@@Jin-o9umao encouraged the destruction of ancient artifacts and anything to do with the old dynasty because while they’re buried in these fancy graves, the people are starving. He was blaming their poverty on people who were dead for more than 100 years
@freedomworks3976
5 сағат бұрын
Well said comrade 👏
@mikehanson9497
5 сағат бұрын
@@Jin-o9u you know what’s ironic about people like you is you come and live in the west and then spend all this energy defending the CCP. If it’s so great then just go back.
@voiceofchina1788
9 сағат бұрын
misconception, a hundred flowers campaign was before the great leap which was resulted by crushing down the different voices or the hundred flowers.
@paulhurst4445
12 сағат бұрын
The single common denominator shared by Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Mao: galaxy-sized egos. Communism is the last refuge of the malignant narcissist. No surprise that dictatorships always appear in communism.
@Jin-o9u
11 сағат бұрын
I bet you even don't understand Marx!!
@Jin-o9u
11 сағат бұрын
. And dont forget Adolf, George Bush, and your founding father
@jaripekkajekunen2713
11 сағат бұрын
@Jin-o9u
@Jin-o9u
11 сағат бұрын
@@jaripekkajekunen2713 sorry my bad
@GuyDownTheSt
10 сағат бұрын
Communism fuels egotism
@leobatard
13 сағат бұрын
Maoism is kind of a deviation of Leninist. Marxist revolutionaries like Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Ho Chi Minh using Mao playbook. Stalin is a staunch Marxist Leninist and not too much like competition at all. He singlehandedly purge all the old Bolsheviks including Bukharin, Kamenev and Trotsky.
@akxn2162
12 сағат бұрын
so what do you think is the difference between mao and stalin
@leobatard
12 сағат бұрын
Mao is a hard-core Stalinist. As far as ideology. Their tactics is different. Stalin using the Party apparatus and bureaucratic framework to get power Mao the peasantry is the Vanguard of the revolution.Mao is more grassroots.
@gabrielrodriguez821
Сағат бұрын
I assumed Mao asked for criticism/ideas simply to bait opponents out. I recall later on Mao went on a purity crusade aka the "culture revolution" as another balent move against any opposition.
@hadenheldermon8971
14 сағат бұрын
I’m here in the middle
@edgarjhernandez5030
Сағат бұрын
communism is the end point of humanity according to Marx?
@jmcw9632
14 сағат бұрын
i'm here at the top
@YT-ur8nh
2 сағат бұрын
With current social acceptance level being so high in the west, it is very important to meet the idea of communism head on, (if freedom of speech is still intact). Especially when topic is wrapping around current biggest self claimed communist country in the world, self claimed, that is, and it applies to every communist country in the history. Do you think their current leadership believes in their holy grail? You think they still believes in something that never brought prosperity to any country that adopted its form, and they themselves also tried and failed then was forced to (“reform” in 1980) abandoned and forced to open its market to integrate with free market society in order save themselves from overthrow by another idealist regime? Chinese communist party did it in purely for the purpose of mako sure they stays in power! They promised the peasants to give up their life in the process of overthrow Nationalist, but couldn’t live up to their promises, tried Soviets model, didn’t worked; tried their own model (“feeling the rock as crossing the river” is what they called it in their own textbooks), failed again, in the last desperate attempt with hope to prevent another revolution and end up in their worst nightmare, they were forced to adopt free market economics, so people can stop dying and to have chace to survive, basically they had already gave up on pursuing communism then, that’s why they call themselves “communist with Chinese Characteristics”. They have to keep their original slogan “Communism” alive, even though everyone knows it already as dead as coffin nails. That’s why as symbols that they didnt do anything wrong, they still have to kept Mao body in display in Beijing, even he directly cause 40 millions deaths in Great Leap Forward and Culture revolution along. Rest of world had overlooked one of largest body of state that’s outside of free world for too long. Part of west naively thinks that by integrating them economically, that its people will start to change it’s govern body, where they had forgot that Chinese communism party also understood it and maybe that might do something to prevent it from happening? You have to remember, they killed more than 40 million people under their rule after they took power, and they still haven’t got overthrown, maybe that tell you something about how CCP was and is still able to control the people. CCP used the west in last 30-40 years as break time, a break time from getting overthrown by potential rivals from within, a break from another catastrophic revolution, a break from masses start to realize they are just another power hungry dictatorship regime, more importantly, it was an opportunity not only they solidified they power at home, but am golden opportunity strengthen their power on global scale. From a enemy state that west try to stop it from spreading, which back then it just came out of WWII and civil war that follows, with millions and millions casualties and a broken country, to a superpower now, that constantly challenges world rules and orders, cornering and elbowing neighbors, seeing themselves as on path to revivification of Chinese nation, but ultimately librating the world as ultimate purpose and goal of so called communism. Do you know China CCP possess the largest naval force in the world currently? Even it’s not yet the strongest, but the largest? I can’t believe west had not see that coming.
@MrSky10101
14 сағат бұрын
Thank you for sharing this
@OreoKing529
13 сағат бұрын
Lysencoism is making a comeback in the West
@dad_jokes_4ever226
14 сағат бұрын
I'm here last
@constantined9015
6 сағат бұрын
Did Mao spend even one day in school?
@sliefox9453
6 сағат бұрын
He studied at a western university. most communist leaders get an education at a western university, they get brainwashed by the left, then they go and spread communism.
@LucasBustamante1
12 сағат бұрын
It baffles me how Lex can listen quietly to such bullshit without calling this guy out. Typical western arrogance.
@Ozempic-666
2 сағат бұрын
I don't think punishing outliers is a unique feature of communism, based on historical evidence. However, it's often the case that less competent societies are overconfident enough to implement this model, which could be seen as a classic example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
@voiceofchina1788
9 сағат бұрын
Mastery over Nature by sheer acts of will, disasterous attempt
@joshuabatterton6025
11 сағат бұрын
Not 69 😂
@sophia8405
14 сағат бұрын
Beautifully said
@TrueDreeamss
14 сағат бұрын
he is totally wrong
@jalcomics
3 сағат бұрын
Xue Hua Piao Piao
@jeffs4483
6 сағат бұрын
800 million people were uplifted out of poverty because of him.
@dylanappenfeldt2442
13 сағат бұрын
This guy is Brilliant and 💯 percent correct! Thank You Lex
@gilbertocamacho6769
10 сағат бұрын
Don't forget Fauci science.
@sittibuathong8060
15 сағат бұрын
I m here first
@HeilwoodBeagles
14 сағат бұрын
Good for you
@serfandterf
14 сағат бұрын
@@HeilwoodBeagleshistory requires pioneers to trailblaze the way for the rest of us.
@HeilwoodBeagles
14 сағат бұрын
@@serfandterf 😆
@dingus6317
13 сағат бұрын
This guy seems like a sympathizer by his descriptions and word choice
@gepvpr
12 сағат бұрын
Elaborate
@derekgrefsheim2542
5 сағат бұрын
He's speaking in the way the communists write it. He's explaining the mindset and reasoning of mao... your just not cultured yet
@mikestewart4752
8 сағат бұрын
Anyone else seeing the parallels with today’s leadership in China? 🫵Looking at you XJ.
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