All posts tagged "Mao Zedong"

President Donald Trump's attempt to reshape America is being referred to as "MAGA Maoism" by critics who see him making the same mistakes as Mao Zedong did during China's Cultural Revolution, according to a new article in The Atlantic.

The article quotes Georgetown University professor and China expert Rush Doshi saying, “'If you take every asymmetric American advantage'—our universities, our science, our reputation for attracting the world’s smartest young people—'we’re going after each of them in a fit of cultural Maoism.'"

Doshi explained that China's Mao Zedong "oversaw a fraught and fatal attempt to industrialize the country, known as the Great Leap Forward," and "his regime was infamous for its cult of personality." ...

A professor with the Yale School of Public Health claimed that Donald Trump is "destroying a generation of knowledge" just like Mao Zedong did during China's Cultural Revolution.

Gregg Gonsalves wrote for The Nation, "What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917."

He continued, "Just because this moment isn’t associated with the intense political bloodshed of those eras doesn’t make the comparison any less apt. In one way or another, the goal is to get rid of an entire set of people and institutions in the service of a radical ideology."...

A gold and jade statue of Mao Zedong worth more than $16 million was unveiled Friday, in the latest example of Communist China's indecision over how to commemorate its founding father's 120th anniversary.

As a teenager radicalised by China's Cultural Revolution, Zhang Hongbing denounced his mother to the authorities. Two months later a firing squad shot her dead.

The appearance of a grand-daughter of Mao Zedong, founding father of Communist China, on a list of the country's richest citizens prompted online accusations of hypocrisy Thursday.