"Our objective is to struggle against and crush those persons in authority
who are taking the capitalist road" an early directive stated."
- The Cultural Revolution: all you need to know about China's politiçal
convulsion theguardian.com May 10, 2016
Qi Benyu was a party propagandist and Mao fav
Michael gnaws away at Qi's memoirs – with questions, not facts from other
sources.
Reasons for confidence in the accuracy:
* Qi corroborates many of his statements with reference to public reports
* I noted instances where other respected sources like William Hinton say the
same thing
My review
Did Mao and the people at the top KNOW how much starvation occurred as a
result of "mistakes" in the Great Leap Forward??? ---
I recall efforts to minimize the food crisis in the early 60s --- Edgar
Snow wrote a piece for MR about the "facts" about food in China that did
not ring true. Neverthele
