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January 17, 2016

If, from time to time, a Communist government could not kill its citizens, how would you expect it to govern?

At its beginning, the Chinese Communist movement was fired with genuine revolutionary ideals;
it sought social justice passionately and succeeded in mobilizing the generosity and courage of a moral and intellectual elite. From the very start, however, it carried within itself the seeds of its eventual corruption; the Communists always believed that mankind mattered more than man. In the eyes of the Party leaders individual lives were merely a raw material in abundant supply—cheap, disposable, and easily replaceable. Therefore, quite naturally, they came to consider that the exercise of terror was synonymous with the exercise of power. If, from time to time, a Communist government could not kill its citizens, how would you expect it to govern? After the Massacres by Simon Leys |

Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 17, 2016 8:34 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Or, as someone once said of the Soviet Union under Stalin: the government's directives were so absurd that the only way the government could get people to take it seriously was to resort to indiscriminate violence and murder.

Hale Adams
Pikesville, People's still-mostly-Democratic Republic of Maryland

Posted by: Hale Adams [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 18, 2016 9:26 PM

Back in the day of Mao's Revolution and the Great Leap Forward Chinese families were large and had hordes of children of both sexes. Now, after the One Child policy, killing student protestors means wiping out family lines that go back a thousand generations.
The People who live in the People's Republic don't take to having their ONLY SONS(child) killed very kindly.

The ChiCom government is going to be learning to rule with a lighter touch or perish.

Posted by: Speller [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 21, 2016 10:25 PM

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