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China After Mao...
...Cultural Revolution and Mao's earlier blunders were not China's whole revolutionary experience, as White seems to suggest. Nor should the downfall of the Gang of Four be interpreted to mean that the revolution has burned out. And further, it is wrong to imply that an industrialized China may not work to the world's good. Have we no ideas for working in harmony with developing economies? Anyone who has properly analyzed recent changes inside China must conclude that its socialist system is there to stay. China has developed into a state ordered by Marxist-Leninist...
White's article presents Mao as a devilish dictator who would kill millions to enhance his power. Mao is worse. He is in the same class as Hitler. The Chinese would be wise to scrap his thoughts entirely if they wish to achieve peace and move ahead economically. The U.S., on the other hand, would benefit from helping China to modernize. When China's economic standards reach those of the West, there is a chance that the Chinese may discard the Communist system and become a major force in the free world...
...individual or a society, that capacity is a sign of life, of vitality, of a soul that can still be moved. Some societies have too much such life. A convulsed revolutionary society (like Mao's China) lives by mass mobilization, mass emotion and mass confession. Continual revolution requires the daily remaking of the past: rewriting history, renouncing friends, repenting crimes. These may be only pseudo confessions, the facsimiles that Lewis warned against, but they are a sign of life...
...need for contrition, they can manage only a growl and a blank stare. Such is the case in the petrified remains of the burned-out revolutionary states, in what Philosopher Michael Walzer calls the "failed totalitarianism" that is descended from the classic, frenzied model of Hitler and Stalin and Mao. Such is the case in the Kremlin, which had already put its frozen heart on display with its stunningly barren funeral for Leonid Brezhnev, and now showed the world that it is no more able to mourn others than to mourn...