THIS Mao?
What Mao Zedong said about liberalism
Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension.
It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency.
Combat Liberalism
THIS Hitler??
"Today Christians stand at the head of our country. I pledge that I will never tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity... We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit.... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theatre, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past few years."
Adolf Hitler
The Speeches of Adolph Hitler, 1922-1939, Vol. 1 (London, Oxford University Press, 1942), pg. 871-872.
THIS Stalin???
Asinine
Semantics - is that all you've got ?
Mao -When speaking of "Liberalism" in Post Revolutionary China was speaking about those Chinese that sought to soften his soften his Revolutionary policies - He was a Lefty and was responsible for the deaths of 50 - 80,000,000
Hitler -
What you posted was 99% irrelevant to the topic at hand and more relevant to a religious thread - it is well known that Hitler was highly superstitious and spiritual but that has minimal relevance to the fact that he was a left wing socialist much like Obama and Clinton. Get with the program pal.
Stalin - I take it you didn't bother to read the article in question- you just saw a snappy banner which suited your agenda and posted it - it is completely irrelevant it deals with Stalinist ideals of the 1930s - which were Left Wing and attempts to define Stalin as a Conservative because he sought to conserve the Left WIng Communist ideals and neo Stalinist authoritarianism.
Get a Clue or STFU because all you posted was a lot of misleading gobbledy gook
It is not "semantics", it is political philosophy. Mao was NOT a liberal...
There is NOTHING liberal about communism...
Liberalism in China or Chinese liberalism resulted from the introduction of
classical liberalism into
China during the period of Western domination towards the end of the
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Translations of
John Stuart Mill,
Herbert Spencer,
Immanuel Kant,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and many other writers had a cumulative effect, as did the ascendancy of liberalism in world powers like Britain, France and the United States. The establishment of the
Republic of China in 1911-12 signaled the acceptance (at least in principle) of these models and the liberal values with which they identified, such as
constitutionalism and the
separation of powers.
The writings of
Liang Qichao (1873-1929) played a major role, despite his leanings to a conservative outlook in latter years. The
New Culture Movement (1915-) and its immediate successor the
May Fourth Movement (1919) initially were strongly liberal in character, with key figures like
Hu Shi (1891-1962) as the preeminent exponent of liberal values. Other important liberals were
Zhang Dongsun (1886-1976) and
Zhang Junmai (1887-1969).
Liberalism was to suffer in the wake of the immense challenges China faced from Japanese militarism and the impact of the Communist movement. By the 1930s many of the younger generation felt that only radical, authoritarian doctrines could save the country. The
Guomindang or Nationalist party absorbed a good deal of
Fascist doctrine and practice. Liberalism increasingly seemed to serve as a forlorn "third force", able only to admonish authoritarian regimes of the Left and Right.
The ascendancy of Mao Zedong and the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949 brought the liberal impulse to its lowest level. Ideological witchhunts were organized against the (real or imaginary) followers of Hu Shi, and their values were ceaselessly derided as bourgeois delusions which could only weaken the nation.
With the collapse of Mao's ideology on his death, seeds of regeneration which had lain dormant gradually came to life. Liberal ideals like intellectual freedom, the separation of powers, civil society and the rule of law were reexamined in the light of the destruction wrought by the Communist party which had been so vociferous in denigrating them. Starting in the
Cultural Revolution, many younger people experienced virtual conversions to liberalism. This process was given further impetus by the Tiananmen Square protests leading up to the massacre of
June 4, 1989. The democracy movement espoused (however imperfectly) many liberal doctrines. Among the key figures were
Wang Ruoshui (1926-2002), who while remaining a Marxist humanist reconfigured this doctrine along liberal lines, and
Liu Xiaobo (b. 1955), initially a literary critic, who broke with Marxism to combine
existentialist themes with liberalism.
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Hitler was NOT a socialist, he despised Marxists...educate yourself on
The Night of the Long Knives where Hitler purged the socialists from the party.
For Adolf Hitler, the behavior of the SA was a problem that now threatened his own political survival and the entire future of the Nazi movement.
The anti-capitalist, anti-tradition sentiments often expressed by SA leaders and echoed by the restless masses of storm troopers also caused great concern to big industry leaders who had helped put Hitler in power. Hitler had promised them he would put down the trade union movement and Marxists, which he had done. However, now his own storm troopers with their talk of a 'second revolution' were sounding more and more like Marxists themselves. (The first revolution having been the Nazi seizure of power in early 1933.)
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Stalin was NO liberal. He led the right wing faction of the party and was opposed by the Leon Trotsky led left wing faction of the party.
Limpwristed fags........
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