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A while back a friend was illustrating the many ways in which Slavoj Zizek fell short as a Marxist theorist (I had retained some sympathies from when I first discovered him as a liberal) with a pretty bad bit of writing on Mao Zedong. To Zizek’s credit, as usual, it’s at least bad in a somewhat interesting way. Titled Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule, the piece indulges in citing Robert Conquest — professional British anti-communist propagandist working for the IRD, who posed as academic historian after the Second World War — at length:
