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Title: Force-fed banalities by a totalitarian tyrant
Review: Mao Tse-tung was the most murderous, anti-cultural and anti-intellectual emperor of China since the first emperor of the Qin dynasty 2,000 years before him (a fellow thug whom Mao greatly admired and sought comparison with, by the way). In another atrocious irony that the history of 20th Century left-wing politics is full of, Mao launched a "Cultural Revolution" in 1966 whose aim was to destroy culture, and then mass-produced an anthology of his coarse and platitudinous writings which he forced the Chinese masses to memorize as the holy scripture of "Mao Tse-tung Thought," an oxymoron if there ever was one. I hardly need to go into the enormous suffering the Chinese people endured under this monster and for those who tout this book on this page, it is evident that they know nothing about Chinese history, culture or people and don't want to know anything. Buy and read this book only if you want to become a mind-numbed robot like them.
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