The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jeremiah 17:9
"Marx and Darwin were friends. Darwinism was the “scientific justification” for Marx’s views, he said.
Marxism spawned Leninism (Lenin kept a figurine of a monkey examining a human skull, sitting on a pile of books, including Darwin’s Origin).
Leninism gave rise to Stalinism (Stalin became an atheist reading a copy of Darwin’s Origin).
Stalin instituted the Great Terror, in which people were rounded up in the middle of the night and shot or sent to brutal work camps and gulags, where many died.
Stalinism inspired Mao Zedong, also a Marxist-Leninist and Darwinian.
Let’s recap Mao’s idea of progress. In 1958 to 1962, Chairman Mao launched a program to catch up to the West. He called it “The Great Leap Forward.”
Mao’s Great Leap Forward ‘killed 45 million in four years’.” But like Stalin said, “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” The horror of what Mao did must be seen in what it did to individuals.
Frank Dikötter, a historian in Hong Kong, gained “unprecedented access” to Chinese records that were only opened up four years ago. The crimes against humanity committed by the “greatest mass murderer in history” must never be forgotten.
Jeremiah 17:9
"Marx and Darwin were friends. Darwinism was the “scientific justification” for Marx’s views, he said.
Marxism spawned Leninism (Lenin kept a figurine of a monkey examining a human skull, sitting on a pile of books, including Darwin’s Origin).
Leninism gave rise to Stalinism (Stalin became an atheist reading a copy of Darwin’s Origin).
Stalin instituted the Great Terror, in which people were rounded up in the middle of the night and shot or sent to brutal work camps and gulags, where many died.
Stalinism inspired Mao Zedong, also a Marxist-Leninist and Darwinian.
Let’s recap Mao’s idea of progress. In 1958 to 1962, Chairman Mao launched a program to catch up to the West. He called it “The Great Leap Forward.”
Mao’s Great Leap Forward ‘killed 45 million in four years’.” But like Stalin said, “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” The horror of what Mao did must be seen in what it did to individuals.
Frank Dikötter, a historian in Hong Kong, gained “unprecedented access” to Chinese records that were only opened up four years ago. The crimes against humanity committed by the “greatest mass murderer in history” must never be forgotten.
His book, Mao’s Great Famine; The Story of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe,As a reminder, Pol Pot’s regime committed similar atrocities twenty years later, rounding up and killing somewhere between 1.5 and 3 million people in Cambodia in 1975 to 1979. The Khmer nationalist was an avowed Marxist-Leninist. His regime’s social experiment treated its victims, rich and poor, young and old, educated and peasant, like faceless digits, hacking many of them to death in the back of the head with hoes, leaving their bodies to rot in “The Killing Fields.”
reveals that while this is a part of history that has been “quite forgotten” in the official memory of the People’s Republic of China, there was a “staggering degree of violence” that was, remarkably, carefully catalogued in Public Security Bureau reports, which featured among the provincial archives he studied. In them, he found that the members of the rural farming communities were seen by the Party merely as “digits”, or a faceless workforce. For those who committed any acts of disobedience, however minor, the punishments were huge.
State retribution for tiny thefts, such as stealing a potato, even by a child, would include being tied up and thrown into a pond; parents were forced to bury their children alive or were doused in excrement and urine, others were set alight, or had a nose or ear cut off. One record shows how a man was branded with hot metal. People were forced to work naked in the middle of winter; 80 per cent of all the villagers in one region of a quarter of a million Chinese were banned from the official canteen because they were too old or ill to be effective workers, so were deliberately starved to death.
Darwinians: this is the ‘utopia’ your theory produced. Want more of it?" CEH