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Dedicated to the memory of Bob Black's sanity and humor.
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STAIRWAY TO HELL: Free Love, said a Reader's Digest article of the
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fifties, was Red China's secret weapon. Young people were flocking to the
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Peoples Liberation Army because of sexual freedom in the ranks. (That
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unlike the rightist KMT the PLA was free of corruption and was attacking
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landlords who were to blame for periodic famines wasn't mentioned.) But
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if U.S. conservatives found Communist Free Love disturbing, their fears
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were short lived. When State power was consolidated all but heterosexual
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monogamy was stringently outlawed.
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Instead of blaming British agents, critics of this trend spoke of a
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peasant morality -- never minding how much it in fact resembled 19th
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Century English Victorianism or Prussian militaristic culture. Explaining
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events with the aid of conspiracy theories was bad form.
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Page 35 of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung is usually cited
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among Maoists to justify neo-puritanism. All it says is to remember that a
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great many people are involved in the revolutionary process. To the
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cosmopolitan mind such a reminder would seem to call for tolerance of
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cultural diversity. Yet in practice page 35 is interpreted as if the whole
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world were simply and uniformly Prussian. Conclusion?
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As page 35 is actually applied in both China and among U. S. Maoists in
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amounds to a demand for conformity to the most imperialist of all cultural
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values.
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Had Mao simply scrawled in flawless calligraphy PIGSHIT across a page of
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rice paper and had that appeared as page 35 of his quotrations the results
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could not possibly have been any more divisive of the radical left.
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Page 35, as it is officially interpreted, is pigshit.
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BULLETIN #7 1986 HO CHI ZEN
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"For the finest victories of socialism to be sent down the drain all that
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remains to be done is to reestablish religion there - why not? - and
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private property." - Andre Breton (speaking about the "ultra-conformist
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wretchedness" of Stalinist Russia in 1935)
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KULTCHA
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c 1986 Kerry W. Thornley
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Available Exclusively From:
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Illumi-Net Computer Bulletin Board System
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(404) 377-1141
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