BLM and Mao

Below we see BLM founder Patrice Cullors speak with very visible pleasure of how cool it was for her writing to be recognised as deeply reminiscent and suggestive of The Little Red Book by Mao Zedong, formerly known in the West as Mao Tse-tung, head of the Chinese Communist Party, and considered the greatest mass murderer in history. Dostoevsky in writing of the radical world in Demons wrote of the revolutionary figure Nechaev and his ilk that “these pathetic freaks are not worthy of literature,” but that unfortunately  the issue was far too important to ignore. However Dostoevsky was far too true to his calling as an artist for this book to remain simply within the narrow parameters of being a polemic, and it grew in conception and execution to astonishing and fantastical depths. But anyway back to the depressing issue at hand.

There is no excuse in terms of ignorance for anyone this century to be admiring of the figure and political philosophy of Mao Zedong, and in truth only a “pathetic freak” could in the realms of intellect and conscience do so. It is both so crude and shallow at the intellectual level, and despicable at the moral one, that the only possible defence lies in the very fact that being such a pathetic freak excuses you from knowing any better. However thankfully we have a freedom of inner movement far beyond being stuck within those kinds of degraded limits, and, apart perhaps from being a complete idiot, only some appalling and wilful violation of conscience could result in the idealising and emulating of such blatant evil.