<<Yes , Mao is dead and Communism isn't feeling so well either , they have allowed millionaires to reappear , and rivate hands to aquire caitol , >>
They're sure as hell taking communism in a new direction but they still have a firm grip on the steering. You know communism as a governing philosophy has to be a little bit flexible and accommodating. This happened in Cuba, where I saw that Fidel instituted mercados libres for small farmers to sell limited amounts of their own produce, and then he shut them down; in Viet Nam when the Viet Minh first allowed for small landlords to keep their holdings and then they turfed them out. In the U.S.S.R. concessions were made to capitalism and then revoked when no longer needed.
There's even a name for the policy: "Two steps forward, one step back."
All you know is where the Party leadership has taken the people to for now - - unless you have a crystal ball, you can't see whether the next step will be forwards or backwards.
<< . . . thus they are better fed.>>
Well, now you know better than the rest of us. On what do you base your conclusion (a) that the Chinese ARE in fact better fed? and (b) that if they are better fed, it's because they allowed the private control of some amounts of capital? and (c) that if they are better fed, it's somehow due to the fact that China now has its first millionaires? Because personally I can't see the connection.
<<Famine need not have occured in the aftermath of WWII >>
You gotta be kidding. The Japs devastated the fucking country. There was a huge famine (1944) during WWII.
<<There were Americans who wanted to suport Chinese agriclture , notably Claire Chenout who wanted to help the people directly that had helped him so much. >>
LMFAO. Claire Chennault was a well-paid agent and gun for hire (The Flying Tigers) of the Soong family, the richest family in China, of one of the Soong family's daughters, Mme. Chiang Kai Shek and of her husband, the Generalissimo. Chiang was the leader of the KMT (Nationalist) Party, which was fighting the CPC (Communist Party of China) and its attempts to free the country from foreign (American) domination. Chiang and the reactionary fascists and warlords who supported him, grew rich off the misery of the workers and peasants of China. The support of Claire Chennault would have been the kiss of death to any agricultural project - - the Chinese had finally been roused to demand national independence, not a chance to live out their lives as one more Amerikkkan puppet state.
<<The Common Chineese citizen who would build airfeilds bare handed and rescue downed Americans at great personal risk , just to help fight the Japaneese.>>
I think you can safely assume that this was due much more to widespread hatred of the barbaric Jap invaders than to any particular affection for the Americans. The Chinese, especially in the coastal areas, never forgot the cruelty and brutality that accompanied the crushing of the Boxer Rebellion by the Western Powers, nor the Opium Wars that let the foreign opium traders into their country in the first place, in defiance of the Emperor's ban on the importation of opium. There was an enormous popular resentment of Westerners, despite the wartime propaganda designed to show the great love affair between the Chinese and American peoples.
If you want to read a fictionalized account of a real-life WWII firefight between American troops in China and a band of Chinese Nationalist army deserters, during a retreat from a major Jap advance, as witnessed by an American war correspondent, Theodore White, who was there, take a look at his book, "The Mountain Road," which examines the burning anger of some Chinese foot-soldiers towards Americans generally. I recall reading, I believe in LIFE magazine, White's non-fiction account of the same battle, with photos.
<<Europe recovered better in part because of the Mashall plan , China just kept on haveing war , fighting off the potential of a Marshall plan.>>
They evidently knew what they were doing. Marshall Plan aid came with a lot of strings attached. Chairman Mao knew all about strings and Trojan Horses. He didn't want the Marshall Plan, China was going to pull itself up by its own bootstraps if necessary, but it would after centuries of foreign colonization and arrogance, finally be master once again in its own house.
<<Communism does cause famine , it does this diectly , if this is not demonstrrated by enourmous famines in Maoist China then is it not demonstrated in recent North Korean famines?>>
I can't even begin to count the reasons why this last statement is ridiculous - - 1, because China always had famine, had it for millennia before Communism was even a gleam in Karl Marx's eye, 2, there was no "enormous famine" during Mao's regime and whatever the magnitude of it, if it even existed, there had been much bigger and many more famines before the alleged famine of Mao's time and 3, I have never seen a shred of evidence that the famines of North Korea are in any way to to communism as opposed to Western and South Korean sabotage, blockade, crop poisoning or other dirty tricks.
