Ending footbindings? Who cares. He cracked an off color joke that may have actually been a dig at Kissinger.
https://nitter.net/moonlit_misfit/status/1730394235172512244
"Can't live with them, can't live without them" is a hegelian dialectic
See, when he said "women hold up half the sky" he meant that quite literally, China has a giant pile of women that reaches up into the heavens. It's a serious problem.
And it only takes like 30,000 women to do it, so there's a bunch left over.
And what are they gonna do? Be shoppin?
"I can excuse misogyny but I draw the line at boomer jokes"
If anyone is wondering about what's going on with some of the replies, there was a massively influential biography titled "The Private Life of Chairman Mao" that depicted Mao as basically a Genghis Khan level sexual predator and sold very well in the anglosphere. That it wound up being completely discredited as a sensationalist fabrication even by American neoliberal historians is of no consequence to its legacy among internet reactionaries.
I looked the author of that, expecting Montefiore since it's right his methods, and while it's surprisingly not Montefiore (i guess not enough pedophilia accussations for him), but dude named Li Zhisui, even his wiki is pretty much telling:
After emigrating to the United States, he wrote a biography of Mao entitled The Private Life of Chairman Mao, in which he described Mao as selfish, cruel, having a craving for young women, and poor personal hygiene.
After emigrating to the United States
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I looked the author of that, expecting Montefiore since it's right his methods,
It would've been incredibly funny if Semenbag Monsanto concidered himself a "China expert" alongside being a "Russia expert", but I suppose he didn't want to be completely discredited among actual historians as a sensationalist quack fanfiction writer
The "and he smelled bad" at the end torpedoed whatever credibility he may have had.
I fucking hate these "leftists" who have nothing better to do than post and post and post whatever they can to sow division over a few words from a man who died half a fucking century ago. Could not be more useless and counterproductive if they were trying, and I'm sure many of them are.
Why do their inter-left complaints literally always outnumber their posts about actual activism? Like every time, without fail.
Because actual leftism means they have to do something. They should start hitting the gym so they can actually hold their own against the Proud Boys.
They should start hitting the gym so they can actually hold their own against the Proud Boys.
The fact that they've made this into a genuine controversy and found reasons to be offended by it proves just how psyopped they are. Otherwise they'd quite literally just shut up and do this.
if being in good shape is fascist then i am the biggest communist alive
Have met some who actually told me fitness culture is fascist. I remember only being able to stare at them in disbelief because I couldn't think of a single response to something so stupid.
No, they had a point. Fitness culture is sus. Fitness isn't. However the mainstream American Fitness culture has big white supremacy vibes.
I could see where they're coming from regarding fitness culture but throwing the baby out with the bathwater is another thing. Being fit isn't fascism.
Definitely reads as a dig at Kissinger, the kind of dig you make when a person's sexual escapades are an open "secret". Gossip gets around.
The "they will create disasters" part is definitely boomer "hurr hurr wahmens" though, common attitudes and jokes of the 50s that were simply not examined for being the problems that they were. Doesn't take away from the fact he was progressive on their liberation, progressive on their inclusion in the workforce equally, etc etc. Well ahead of capitalists of his time just as we today are well ahead of capitalists of our time but very likely not without our issues or blindspots that future leftists will criticise.
off color joke that may have actually been a dig at Kissinger.
yup
Oh. I never knew that.
First time Kissinger and I have something in common.
First time Kissinger and I have something in common.
Well, second time. Up til recently, he was also alive.
Ok gosh, that reminds me of a Larouche quote about Kissinger
Even if he was some horrible misogynist, that's not why people look up to him and study his writings. There isn't a guy out there thats like, "idk about all this communism stuff, but he certainty had the right idea about women
".new type of guy spawned of the lathe.
Maoist but only because they have all the social views of a 1960s Chinese peasant
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These terminally-online anarchists always wring their hands over this sort of stuff and yet when you confront them with the fact that a clique of military officers formed around Makhno and they had a penchant for drunken gang rape, they'll either tell you that it's Bolshevik propaganda (how the chairman of the Makhnovist Military Revolutionary Council was a Bolshevik propagadist never gets explained, nor do they seem to know the source of this info despite being able to make wild claims about the info itself) or they'll tell you that they also denounce what happened.
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["The Council" here referring to the Military Revolutionary Council, the administrative apparatus of Makhnovia which the military was (ostensibly) accountable to and bound by]
If you ask them when was the last time they denounced Makhno's rapey tendencies or when they last caused called someone out for touting the Makhnovist flag, suddenly and without announcement the discussion always seems to cease.
Honestly you don't even need to go that far to make Makhnovists look like a piece of shit. My favorite is to use material admitted by even his most sympathetic
apologistsbiographers and then get accused of repeating Bolshevik lies.https://web.archive.org/web/20230610081318/http://www.ditext.com/voline/687.html
Voline, The Unknown Revolution, 1917-1921 (1947)
Ngl Mao being a please, take my wife! guy is very funny in a Far Side kind of way
Desperate to learn the 1960s Chinese equivalents of "dames" "broads" etc.
小姐, something every student of Chinese learns early on, is still commonly used, though it can have very offensive implications in informal circumstances. I think that's sort of related.
