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Re: Obama's War
« Reply #60 on: April 04, 2010, 10:11:00 PM »
<<No no no , production is not the same as earning!>>

Of course it's not.  That's why I suggested you substitute it.  You claim that earning counts for nothing, but in a socialist society, it SHOULD count for nothing.  Production OTOH will always count for something, the value of which, under socialism, will accrue 100% to the benefit of the people.  THAT was the point I was trying to make.

<<Taking someones earnings has to be justified and have due process.>>

Bullshit.  The earnings themselves, to the extent that they benefit exclusively their producer, represent an illegitimate theft from the people.

<<And Communism assumes it belongs to others in the first place on the basis of their need.>>

Wrong - - it could also belong to the producers, depending on their need.

<<Abe Lincon had to go to war to wean us from liveing on the sweat of anothers brow , Marx proposed a retrograde step to bring us back to livein on that others sweat.>>

You don't see the difference between those with the least need (the planters) living off the labour of those with the most need (the slaves) and a philosophy of serving the neediest first? 

<<Giving to each according to his need is even worse than confiscateing the earnings of an earner for frivolous reason .>>

That's what everyone says who confiscates the earnings of the working class for frivolous reasons.

<<Who is going to decide what I need , and reconcile this with what is availible?>>

Most normal people have little trouble figuring these things out.  You build a home for the homeless before you build a swimming pool for the suburbanite.  You feed the guy who is starving before you pay for champagne and caviar for the owner of your local bank.  You buy a bike for the guy who has to hike twelve miles to work every day before you upgrade the boss's Caddy to a Benz.  It's not all that difficult, plane, unless you NEED it to be difficult.

<<Ineed a king to tell me what I need like a need a hole in the head but anything less than a despot will be unable to tell me what I need and make me accept it as the correct amount .>>

Others have figured this all out before you many and many a time, and it seems to work out just fine.

<<Marxism is therefore an inescapable road to serfdom if not slavery , it cannot operate its most basic tenant without a despotic leader and has nothing to offer without robbery of earnings from those able to earn .>>

If it's inescapable roads to serfdom you are looking for, please don't neglect to look at wage-slavery while you're at it, families with both parents working longer hours and fifty-week years to pay the bank for the house they live in, the oil companies for the cars they drive, the agribusiness conglomerates for the toxin-laden swill they call food and their government to maintain an army of rapists, thugs and murderers to keep the third world for the benefit of the ruling classes.

<<Fortunately the same sort of flaws also keep Communist nations from realiseing their full potential for strength , Communism is itself a handicap to its own propagation.>>

I guess that's what kept China down these past 50 years, eh?

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« Reply #61 on: April 05, 2010, 12:30:53 AM »

I guess that's what kept China down these past 50 years, eh?


How true , I suppose you have no realisation for how true it is.

China was much damaged in WWII , incredable suffering and loss of capabilitys.

Not worse than Japan.

Thirty years later China has a wage of cents a day and Japan has developed the worlds second biggest economy.

Mao and Communism were helping China progress in the way that a pocket full of rocks helps you swim. 


Productive people earn money because they are actually makeing the stuff. If you limit what they can earn why should they work one iota more than the minimum?
Indeed won't a very productive worker earn the ire of his co -workers when he gets the quota improved?
A worker in a communist system has a lot of incentive to make his needs known to the petty despots who decide what he ought to be paid , no particular incentive to earn it.


Communism is in its most basic concept a mistaken idea of what work and what money actually are.


Benjamin Franklin had it right a lot sooner than Marx got it wrong, "Time is money".

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« Reply #62 on: April 05, 2010, 07:50:09 AM »
Your lesson in fantasy history left out a few points of comparison between Japan and China.  China under foreign capitalist  imperialism since the Opium Wars of the late 19th C.  had never realized its potential whereas Japan was a major trading (exporting) nation since the beginning of the 20th C. but especially so in the Nineteen Thirties.  the total devastation of WWII was a long-term term benefit to exporting nations such as Germany and Japan, since their production facilities had to be rebuilt from scratch, often with far superior results to the aging plants of the victor nations.  Japan rebuilt with the help and support of the Western capitalist countries, Communist China against their active opposition.

If you look at the top exporting countries in the world today (more or less, since I'm not sure of the date of the first source that popped up on my Google search, http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/world-top-ten-exporting-countries-map.html,
they are Germany, China, U.S.A., in that order.Germany, of course, is a capitalist country, but with many socialist features lacking in the U.S.A., chief among them being a much shorter working year for its workers and significantly better benefits, so your bogus theory of "more capitalism, better results" needs to be re-examined on that issue alone.

Japan is in fourth place, but considerably behind the top three, which are bunched fairly close together.  I could find no similar "Top Ten" lists showing China's place among world exporters prior to WWII or prior to the triumph of Communism in China, but I am pretty sure they enjoyed nothing like their current relative position.  

China was wracked by famine throughout its four thousand years of history, as you at least partially recognize by singling out the one alleged famine that may (according to you) have happened in Communism's early years in China as if it were the only one they ever had, but in fact the famine problem appears to have been licked in China thanks to Communist rule and discipline.

China today and its position in the world is still a work in progress but already its accomplishments under the Chinese Communist Party and without the phony charades which in the U.S.A. are hilariously still referred to as "elections," have made it truly unrecognizable from the basket-case that it became under the domination of foreign capital interests.  Your ludicrous "comparisons" with Japan, an already industrialized exporting power, notwithstanding.
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« Reply #63 on: April 06, 2010, 11:04:38 PM »
". .......... the total devastation of WWII was a long-term term benefit to exporting nations such as Germany and Japan, since their production facilities had to be rebuilt from scratch, often with far superior results to the aging plants of the victor nations.  Japan rebuilt with the help and support of the Western capitalist countries, Communist China against their active opposition."
That is rediculous you know ,as if the US would have been much better off if it had been occupied a while and heavily bombed.
Japan recovered (and WGermany) while occupied by foreigners.
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your bogus theory of "more capitalism, better results" needs to be re-examined on that issue alone.
Germany is unique in the world for haveing an ability to appreaciate how much of an handicap communism is.They have a liveing communist party and forbidden facist party why arn't the communists likely to win controll of the government ? Plenty of Germans have personal experience being raised up as communists. The progress of West germany as contrasted with East Gernamy is nearly as pure an experiment in Communist advantages as North vs South Korea. I suppose Germans are indeed more socialist , it was there that the predicessor of Social Security was invented , It was there that a Socialist Party was near to conquering all the rest of Europe.
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Japan is in fourth place, but considerably behind the top three, which are bunched fairly close together.  I could find no similar "Top Ten" lists showing China's place among world exporters prior to WWII or prior to the triumph of Communism in China, but I am pretty sure they enjoyed nothing like their current relative position.  
It does depend a lot on when you look Japan has been as high as Second for decades at a time. China has done wonders since they pegged their currency to the Dollar, threw out the "iron rice bowl" and stopped forbidding entrepenurship.If they continue to trash Communist practices they may indeed become the largest economy in the world in one or two decades and might keep that status for several decades.
Why not?, there was nothing but Communism itself keeping them from these advances five decades ago.
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China was wracked by famine throughout its four thousand years of history,
This is very meaningless to say. Every peoples in every land have a history of famines occuring and reoccuring. Why tho is the worst famine of all human history almost unknown even tho it was not all that long ago?

Mao needed so much privacy that there can't be any proof found one way or the other?

North Korea is still a land of Communism , its people are eager to tell you so and they are also a land of current famine, why?The Communism itself explains this sufficiently to me , what is the alternative explanation?
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« Reply #64 on: April 06, 2010, 11:35:02 PM »
<<That is rediculous you know ,as if the US would have been much better off if it had been occupied a while and heavily bombed.>>

While you argue hypotheticals which can never be proved or disproved ("as if the U.S. would have been . . . ") I stick to the facts.  The facts show that the old equipment of Germany and Japan was wiped out or taken away as "reparations" by the victors.  It was replaced with brand-new state-of-the-art equipment.  There is no "would have been, could have been" in this, plane - - we ALL know the result.  Not what "would have been, could have been," but what WAS.

<<Germany is unique in the world for haveing an ability to appreaciate how much of an handicap communism is.>>

They have as much opportunity to appreciate the benefits of communism as its alleged "handicaps."  And nothing unique about it, either.

<<They have a liveing communist party and forbidden facist party why arn't the communists likely to win controll of the government ?>>

Most likely due to corporate control of the German MSM, obviously.   And the fact that it takes plenty of money to run successful campaigns. 

<<Plenty of Germans have personal experience being raised up as communists. The progress of West germany as contrasted with East Gernamy is nearly as pure an experiment in Communist advantages as North vs South Korea.>>

What bullshit.  The West showered West Germany with money and went easy on the prosecution of former Nazi war criminals to win the support of former Nazis.  The East hunted, imprisoned and killed Nazis.  The Germans who took power in the East were the Communists who survived the war by escaping to Moscow, the ones who took power in the West had many fruitful Nazi connections.  The popularity of anti-Communist policies in the Western part of the country was due in large part to support from ex-Nazis.

<<I suppose Germans are indeed more socialist , it was there that the predicessor of Social Security was invented , It was there that a Socialist Party was near to conquering all the rest of Europe.>>

Why look that far back?  The French and the Germans have roughly equal vacations with pay for their workers, way more than American workers.  According to you, that is more socialistic.  But they live better than you under "socialism" than you live under capitalism.  Their workers have more benefits.

<<It does depend a lot on when you look Japan has been as high as Second for decades at a time. China has done wonders since they pegged their currency to the Dollar, threw out the "iron rice bowl" and stopped forbidding entrepenurship.If they continue to trash Communist practices they may indeed become the largest economy in the world in one or two decades and might keep that status for several decades.
Why not?, there was nothing but Communism itself keeping them from these advances five decades ago.>>

More bullshit.  Five decades ago they were staggering out of the chaos of WWII and the Civil War.  ALL of the progress from then till now was under Communism.  Sometimes the communists relaxed their grip, sometimes they tightened it.  Lenin went from War Communism to NEP (New Economic Policy) with limited opportunities for capitalism, then back to more classical communist principles after the NEP; Fidel did something like that in Cuba with the Mercados Libres of the Eighties, which were then abandoned.  Communism can be flexible and adaptable - - remember "Two steps forward, one step back?"  It was communism that brought them to where they are today and nothing but Communism. 

Your "would have done better without . . . " is just more speculative crap trying to obscure the solid and obvious achievements (which DWARF the achievements of the USA in the same period of time in terms of bettering the life of the people) of the Chinese Communist Party.  Your aversion to reality is such that you need to retreat into speculation, hypothesis and fantasy in order to avoid the reality that is staring you in the face.  Did you realize that over the past THIRTY YEARS the small advances in real wages made by the American people have been eaten away completely by the rise in the costs of health care alone?

<<This ["China was wracked by famine throughout its four thousand years of history"] is very meaningless to say. >>

Well, I guess if you lived there and went through the events or heard family stories and local histories of the events, I don't think it would be totally meaningless.

<<Every peoples in every land have a history of famines occuring and reoccuring. >>

That is nonsense.  Some countries are much more susceptible than others.  China had a particularly long and severe history of famines before the advent of communism.

<<Why tho is the worst famine of all human history almost unknown even tho it was not all that long ago?>>

Maybe because it's just a bunch of anti-communist propaganda?

<<Mao needed so much privacy that there can't be any proof found one way or the other?>>

How do you find "proof" of an event that didn't happen?

<<North Korea is still a land of Communism , its people are eager to tell you so and they are also a land of current famine, why?The Communism itself explains this sufficiently to me , what is the alternative explanation?>>

Their leaders obviously decided that weapons and self-defence were more important than surplus food.  People are on tight rations.  I don't know where you find evidence of actual famine.  It does not seem likely to me.  It's probably more lying U.S. propaganda.  They produce containerloads of this shit by the minute.  On every topic, on every country.

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« Reply #65 on: April 07, 2010, 01:25:17 AM »

 - remember "Two steps forward, one step back?"  It was communism that brought them to where they are today and nothing but Communism. 
after two steps in a forward direction why would a step back be needed? did the people need some releif , or food?
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(which DWARF the achievements of the USA in the same period of time in terms of bettering the life of the people)
China has done well since Nixon , which they owe more to Nixon than to anyone elese.
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<<Why tho is the worst famine of all human history almost unknown even tho it was not all that long ago?>>

Maybe because it's just a bunch of anti-communist propaganda?

<<Mao needed so much privacy that there can't be any proof found one way or the other?>>

How do you find "proof" of an event that didn't happen?




The Holocaust didn't happen either , for people who have a political reason to not like the facts. Next tiem you hear of a holocaust denyer , don't feel smug against him , you are suffering the same malady.

I understand that people touring North Korea are told by their guides that the US attacked North Korea and started the war. My understanding is that the US didn't even allow South Korea to buy any tanks before the war and the North s attack caught us unprepared because we had so little equipment of any kind on the scene.

I think one of these versions is fiction , but how could I prove this to someone who thought all negatives were propaganda?

North Korea is intent on strength so much thatthey are killing their people for it . Uselessly of course, they have nothing the US needs to take without payment. They have precious little at all , they have devoted so much to fortifacaton that they have nothing to keep safe in the fort.


If they arn't starveing in NKorea and if China never had a huge famine in 59 thru 62 where are the reports and records kept that you would actually trust?


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« Reply #66 on: April 07, 2010, 01:37:49 AM »
- remember "Two steps forward, one step back?"  It was communism that brought them to where they are today and nothing but Communism. 
after two steps in a forward direction why would a step back be needed? did the people need some releif , or food?
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(which DWARF the achievements of the USA in the same period of time in terms of bettering the life of the people)
China has done well since Nixon , which they owe more to Nixon than to anyone elese.
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<<Why tho is the worst famine of all human history almost unknown even tho it was not all that long ago?>>

Maybe because it's just a bunch of anti-communist propaganda?

<<Mao needed so much privacy that there can't be any proof found one way or the other?>>

How do you find "proof" of an event that didn't happen?


The Holocaust didn't happen either , for people who have a political reason to not like the facts. Next tiem you hear of a holocaust denyer , don't feel smug against him , you are suffering the same malady.

D'OH    :D

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« Reply #67 on: April 07, 2010, 07:24:08 AM »
<<after two steps in a forward direction why would a step back be needed? did the people need some releif , or food?>>

That's a good question.  I don't really know the answer.  I would expect that in any period of rapid revolutionary change, there are people who can't adjust and will resist any kind of change.  It's got to be kind of disarming to their resistance if you first show them how far forward you COULD go, and then step back, which shows some kind of moderation on your part in not taking the most forward position possible.


<<China has done well since Nixon , which they owe more to Nixon than to anyone elese.>>

Who knew Nixon was such a multi-tasker?  Running China at the same time as he was President of the United States is some fucking accomplishment!  My hat's off to Tricky Dick.  

I notice that the above quote was your response to my claim that the progress made by the Chinese people since the seizure of power by the communists has dwarfed the achievements of the American people over the same time period, to which it seems your only answer is, "Nixon did it."  You could have at least argued that the Chinese people were starting off from a much lower base-line.

<<The Holocaust didn't happen either , for people who have a political reason to not like the facts. Next tiem you hear of a holocaust denyer , don't feel smug against him , you are suffering the same malady.>>

Everyone's entitled to his own opinion.  I don't believe that any famine that happened under Mao was due to communism and I don't believe it was the worst in human history.  Repetition of that bullshit from the usual anti-Communist propaganda sources inside and outside of China doesn't make it any truer than repetition of the Holocaust deniers makes their story any truer.  The plain fact is that there is indisputable evidence of the Holocaust and nothing but pathetic fraudulent crap against it, whereas there is very little evidence of the famines you are trying to pin on communism, and in view of the milennia-old history of repeated famine in
China, absolutely NO evidence tying any famine that might have occurred in the early years of communism to communism itself.

<<I understand that people touring North Korea are told by their guides that the US attacked North Korea and started the war. >>

Ha ha ha.  I understand that the GOP is telling the American people that the US attacked Iraq because they were concerned about the threat that Iraq posed to America  with its WMD.

<<My understanding is that the US didn't even allow South Korea to buy any tanks before the war and the North s attack caught us unprepared because we had so little equipment of any kind on the scene.>>

I sure don't know how "surprised" anyone was by the North Korean attack and I didn't hear the tank story before, but I do know that there are revisionist histories now published which cast a different light on the relationship between the two Koreas and their superpower sponsors, but that even those histories say that the fighting started with a North Korean push into South Korean territory.  One day when I retire I'd like to read some of those histories.  You probably should as well, you seem to have this "USA can do no wrong" attitude which is the mirror image of my "USA can do no right."

<<I think one of these versions is fiction , but how could I prove this to someone who thought all negatives were propaganda?>>

Same as you prove anything else - - you produce facts from unblemished sources and argue from them.

<<North Korea is intent on strength so much thatthey are killing their people for it .>>

Which, of course, you have no credible evidence of.

<< Uselessly of course, they have nothing the US needs to take without payment. >>

Nevertheless they WERE invaded by the U.S. during the Korean War, with great loss of life.

<<They have precious little at all>>

They seem to have developed some pretty powerful weapons.

<< they have devoted so much to fortifacaton that they have nothing to keep safe in the fort.>>

Other than their people, their people's army and their country.

<<If they arn't starveing in NKorea and if China never had a huge famine in 59 thru 62 where are the reports and records kept that you would actually trust?>>

That's a pretty odd way of putting it.  Usually, I don't prove negatives with "reports I can trust."  Who the hell reports negatives?  If you allege famine in either country, produce a credible report. 

As for China, you have an additional problem:  where is the evidence that it was communism that caused the famine (if there was in fact a famine) rather than the same factors which had been causing Chinese famines over the past 4,000 years, which had not yet been corrected by the relatively new Communist regime?

And another problem - - why are there still famines in Africa, in countries which still operate non-communist systems and sell their produce through capitalist markets to capitalist countries?  In fact why are you focusing on a single alleged Communist famine of over 40 years ago to the exclusion of famines which are currently sweeping the non-communist African economy?
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« Reply #68 on: April 07, 2010, 06:34:35 PM »
That's a pretty odd way of putting it.  Usually, I don't prove negatives with "reports I can trust."  Who the hell reports negatives?  If you allege famine in either country, produce a credible report. 

Here is a book review, the author documents the famine with papers smuggled out of China:

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/05/books/horror-of-a-hidden-chinese-famine.html

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« Reply #69 on: April 07, 2010, 10:43:54 PM »
Well, thanks for the link, Ami.  I Googled Jason Becker, which led me to this excerpt from his book:
http://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Ghosts-Maos-Secret-Famine/dp/0805056688#reader_0805056688

I'd have to say at this point that Becker's work confirms that China has been cursed with severe famines for thousands of years, that there may have been a famine there from 1959 to 1962 (denied by Han Suyin, a writer who had been making annual visits to China from the beginning of the Communist government there, and CP Snow, a British scientist also familiar with the country) and that if there was, it was due to excessive government seizure of food supplies and/or hoarding by the peasant producers.

As far as I can see, there is no reliable way of ascertaining the extent of the role of either government seizures or producer hoarding in any famine that might have occurred.  Middleman (capitalist)  hoarding is not even discussed in the material that I read, although it would have been very unlikely that middlemen, jobbers or simply rice speculators could all have been eliminated by 1959.   Although Becker claims that the government was firmly in control of the grain-producing areas of the country at the time of the alleged famine, that simply does not seem plausible, so vast is the country, so populous and so disoriented by the war with the Japanese.  Even now, the central government does not exercise full control over the outlying regions.

Even taking this crap at its least favourable (to Communist rule) it shows only that China's Communist leaders made some particularly bad decisions at the beginning of their second decade in power, which at the worst were the major contributing cause of a major famine.  What can ya do?  Shit happens.  They didn't intentionally cause the famine.  And they evidently learned from the mistakes (if in fact they made any) - - after 4,000 years of famine, China's famines came to an end.  Under Communism.  And at the same time, their rise from foreign servitude took off. 

Communism rules.

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« Reply #70 on: April 07, 2010, 11:43:48 PM »
Is foreign servatude really worse than slavery to locals?

Why is the census data from China which shows millions of missing so doubtable , the Chineese of the time had not yet learned to count , the census was taken by foreiners?

Mao rang down a curtain to provide a lot of privacy for his process and results , After George Washingtons Revolution there were from time to time food shortages , most of which can be perused in public documents.

Mao would not have needed any privacy for successes or for processes that were not shamefull. The thickness of the curtain that makes it uncertain even whether citys full of persons lived or died and the deepness of the shadow that envelops these facts is worse than merely suspicious , it is confirmation of Mao and company wishing to hide what is certainly a real failure.

In Chineese History books there is no Tein an Min massacre no gathering of dissatisfied there , no mention of anything for them to be dissatisfied about. Many of these people were young and their parents still live, suffering  the sound of silence which like a cancer grows.

The Final solution that Hitlers crew tried to implement on Jews and  Roma almost worked and was almost unknown outside his frontiers , within his fronteirs of course the whispers were hard to gather into a picture that would reveil the scope of the destruction even to persons who could see a part of it directly.

China was like that , China is still like that , this is the part I like the least the government controll of information so tight that they are able to make failure and famine and crime fade and be forgotten if it is the government that wants it to be so.

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« Reply #71 on: April 08, 2010, 12:28:23 AM »
<<Is foreign servatude really worse than slavery to locals?>>

You know what China was like and how her people lived in servitude to foreigners, and now you see how they live and where the country stands in the world when the Chinese are masters in their own house.  They are not in slavery to anyone, BTW; they are ruled by the dictatorship of the proletariat, but the proletariat is Chinese too.  You tell me which was better for the Chinese, foreign hegemony or the dictatorship of the proletariat?

<<Why is the census data from China which shows millions of missing so doubtable , the Chineese of the time had not yet learned to count , the census was taken by foreiners?>>

What's the big deal?  Inventory counts get screwed up, census headcounts get screwed up.  For every scholar that claims the census shows millions missing, I'm sure you can find another who can explain it.  China was a vast, sprawling, unorganized mass of hundreds of millions when the Communists took it over, in the course of a civil war.  Who knows what destruction of records had occurred, who knows what degree of disorganization in the census machinery had to be addressed, and who knows what the results of the census really proved?

<<Mao rang down a curtain to provide a lot of privacy for his process and results , After George Washingtons Revolution there were from time to time food shortages , most of which can be perused in public documents.>>

I don't buy that Mao rang down a curtain on what under the KMT was perfectly transparent.  I think it's generally true that record keeping, statistics and facts in China were chaotically disorganized for many years both before Communism and for at least a  decade after.

<<Mao would not have needed any privacy for successes or for processes that were not shamefull. >>

That's total bullshit.  There were many reasons for restricting information flow in a communist society.  Protection against foreign saboteurs, agents and invaders was a strong motive.  I remember when we visited Moscow and tried to get street maps of the city, we were told that none had been prepared under Communist rule, because they did not want foreign spies skulking with ease through Moscow streets and subways.  There was nothing "shameful" about the street layouts, but the information was definitely off-limits to foreigners for many decades.  Mao would have many reasons not to allow what he considered to be sensitive national information fall into the hands of foreigners.

<<The thickness of the curtain that makes it uncertain even whether citys full of persons lived or died and the deepness of the shadow that envelops these facts is worse than merely suspicious , it is confirmation of Mao and company wishing to hide what is certainly a real failure.>>

Bullshit again.  It's confirmation of nothing more than the fact that you don't know what the hell you are talking about but prefer to assume the worst.

<<In Chineese History books there is no Tein an Min massacre no gathering of dissatisfied there , no mention of anything for them to be dissatisfied about. Many of these people were young and their parents still live, suffering  the sound of silence which like a cancer grows.>>

Who the hell knows what's in Chinese history books?  You ever read one?  Talk about American history books, because we've both read some of those.  How much space to they give to lynching?  How much to the Scottsboro Boys or the Haymarket Massacre, the Pullman Strike, the Thibodaux Massacre?  Wonder how much they devote to the Ohio State Massacre after the Texas School Books committee gets through "revising" the history texts?

<<The Final solution that Hitlers crew tried to implement on Jews and  Roma almost worked and was almost unknown outside his frontiers , within his fronteirs of course the whispers were hard to gather into a picture that would reveil the scope of the destruction even to persons who could see a part of it directly.>>

There are different schools of thought on how much the Germans knew about this. 

<<China was like that , China is still like that , this is the part I like the least the government controll of information so tight that they are able to make failure and famine and crime fade and be forgotten if it is the government that wants it to be so.>>

You know how this looks to me?  Like whether the famine happened or not, and whether it was the Communists' fault or not, you have to hang on to that desperately, because the benefits of Communism are so apparent in the first six decades of the regime that it's the only thing left to you.  If not for that famine, real or imaginary, you'd have absolutely NOTHING to say against the argument that China is in and of itself proof positive of the superiority of the Communist way.

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« Reply #72 on: April 08, 2010, 01:17:38 AM »
The benefits of Commumnism ARE famine ,the worst famine of all human history  .

And a coverup so tight that even people who want to prove it isn't so have nothing to go on.


Are you really saying that Chineese people could not count after a mere decade of Communism? The census shows millions fewer names and eyewitnesses recount piled corpses , what we have here is the same thing as the Holocaust of WWII Europe , but with the perpetrator winning and completing his coverup the way that Hitler probly intended to.

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<<Mao would not have needed any privacy for successes or for processes that were not shamefull. >>

That's total bullshit.  There were many reasons for restricting information flow in a communist society.

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The only reason for secrecy here is shame. There is no secret wepon in famine or prosperity , but to seduce the world with the false promises of Communism it is needfull to hide its incompetance at feeding its people. If they had success and prosperity it would have paid them well to show it off.

If it is the fact that the Chineese were actually dieing faster and over a wider area while under the care of Mao than when under the thumb of the Imperial Japaneese or the Imperial British then the theroy of "benefits" of Communism is entirely disproved , thus the need for secrecy.

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« Reply #73 on: April 08, 2010, 03:16:24 AM »
Communism rules.

I do believe the Nazis had the same belief.  In the end, BOTH are rabidly detrimental to freedom (and one's health if you don't toe the governmental line)
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<<The benefits of Commumnism ARE famine ,the worst famine of all human history  .>>

Bullshit.  The benefits of Communism are that China has been lifted from its subservient position to the point where its economy has overtaken that of most of the world and by mid-century will probably overtake the U.S.A. as well, not only economically but in all probability in military power as well. 

Famine, which had plagued China for 4,000 years on a regular and severe basis (as was even documented by the source that Ami provided) has now been eliminated for the first time in history.  If "the benefits of Communism are famine" then one has to ask, "Where is this famine now, after 60 years of Communist rule?" One would surely have to expect that if 10 years of Communism resulted in "the worst famine of all human history," that SIXTY YEARS of Communism would surely have killed them all off long ago.  Perhaps we are looking at a nation of zombies or ghosts, the real Chinese people having died of starvation years ago?

plane, your view of history is so crazed by the fanatical anti-Communist bullshit produced by your own lying government and private capitalist sources for all of your life that you are not able to make any sense out of the world even when all the evidence is staring you right in the face.  What you claim as historical fact is so at odds with reality that even a few seconds of logical analysis brings the whole temple of lies down in ruins, yet you persist in the fantasy that your dying capitalism, incapable of supporting itself without massive public bail-outs lifted from your own pockets before your very eyes, is the best way forward, and that Communism, adaptable to change and flexible in theory, intelligently applied by the dictatorship of the proletariat, produces nothing but famine.

<<And a coverup so tight that even people who want to prove it isn't so have nothing to go on.>>

TRANSLATION:  I don't have any evidence, you don't have any evidence, so we can only assume (1) that China suffered "the worst famine of all human  history" some fifty years ago and (2) that it has been covered up until now.   

plane, at the most, you MAY have some evidence that a famine occurred about fifty years ago (in roughly the first decade of Communist rule and following four thousand years of periodic famine in China under non-communist rule) and that Communist policies MAY have contributed in SOME degree to its having occurred.  You have NO reliable evidence that whatever famine may have occurred was "the worst in human history."  As we say so often in this forum, shit happens.  Nobody's perfect.  Mistakes can be made.  Since that time, there has been no more famine in China.  Today I believe that China has overtaken the  U.S.A. in such indices of consumer living as number of automobiles in private use, number of cell phones in private use, number of home computers, number of internet accounts, etc.  Whatever the comparable indices of consumer living were in the 20th C. prior to the advent of Communism in China, you can bet your ass that China did not surpass anybody in anything and that none of this relative advance in living standards over any other country began until after the success of the Chinese Revolution.

However none of the above facts or logic will or can stop you from desperately clinging to the mantra that Chinese Communism has produced nothing except famine for the people.  All that you have succeeded in convincing me of is the depth and thoroughness of the brainwashing that you have been subjected to, and the desperate need that you seem to have to justify the superiority of your collapsing system in the face of all evidence to the contrary.


<<Are you really saying that Chineese people could not count after a mere decade of Communism? The census shows millions fewer names and eyewitnesses recount piled corpses , what we have here is the same thing as the Holocaust of WWII Europe , but with the perpetrator winning and completing his coverup the way that Hitler probly intended to.>>

Now you're also an expert on what the Chinese Communist leadership INTENDED?  What, you read their minds?  Is it not equally possible that they fucked up, unintentionally produced or were unable to stop a famine which, while accounting for the memories of "piled corpses," falls far, far short of being "the worst in human history," and was covered up for the same kind of reasons that led the U.S. government to cover up both the My Lai Massacre and the more recent New Baghdad Massacre?  Does the mere fact of the cover-up indicate that either of those two massacres was "the worst massacre in all of history?"

<<The only reason for secrecy here is shame. There is no secret wepon in famine or prosperity , but to seduce the world with the false promises of Communism it is needfull to hide its incompetance at feeding its people. If they had success and prosperity it would have paid them well to show it off.

<<If it is the fact that the Chineese were actually dieing faster and over a wider area while under the care of Mao than when under the thumb of the Imperial Japaneese or the Imperial British then the theroy of "benefits" of Communism is entirely disproved , thus the need for secrecy.>>

Even if they had something to hide - - as for example, the U.S. had reason to hide the My Lai Massacre - - how on earth do you get from the notion that a screw-up was hidden to the notion that a hidden screw-up is "the worst in all of history?"  How do you get from the notion that a screw-up was hidden to the notion that the hidden screw-up is not just "a" screw-up but proof positive that the system that screwed up can never work?

At the very MOST, plane, your argument is that they screwed up, big-time or small-time, fifty years ago, and therefore despite all other contrary evidence of progress made, they are a failure.  Not much of an argument, I'm afraid.