Review of The Battle for China’s Past by Mobo Gao

Mobo Gao’s new book challenges mainstream establishment accounts of socialism in China under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. The aim of the book is to present evidence – documentary, observational and anecdotal – to show how the analysis of Maoism as being genocidal and totally destructive of China’s economy is a self-serving myth perpetuated by the capitalist elite of China and the West.

Review of Mao’s Bloody Revolution Revealed

Review of Mao’s Bloody Revolution Revealed (with Philip Short, 2007) 13 October 2007 LLCO.org Mao’s Bloody Revolution Revealed (2007) is hosted by Philip Short, BBC correspondent and author of Mao: A Life (2000). Bloody Revolution can be divided into two parts. The first half of the documentary covers the course of the Chinese revolution up to the Great Proletarian Cultural …

Lin Biao as Barometer

Lin Biao as Barometer Prairie Fire LLCO.org The question of Lin Biao is not simply a question of whether Mao’s appointed successor attempted a coup or not. It is not simply an issue of adding or subtracting another head to the pantheon of revolutionary heroes. Two approaches confront each other in the question of Lin Biao. On the one hand, …

Dissent, science, and a healthy world (Part 2)

Part 1 of this review is found here: https://llco.org/dissent-science-and-a-healthy-world/ Dissent, science, and a healthy world: comments on Judith Shapiro’s Mao’s War Against Nature (2001) Part 2 of 2 LLCO.org Some final thoughts Capitalism has proven itself unable of dealing with the growing environmental crisis. In order to reproduce itself, capitalism must maintain unsustainable production and consumption. It is the nature …

Dissent, science, and a healthy world

Part 2 of this review can be found here: https://llco.org/dissent-science-and-a-healthy-world2/ Dissent, science, and a healthy world: comments on Judith Shapiro’s Mao’s War Against Nature (2001) Part 1 of 2 LLCO.org Mao’s War Against Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2010) by Judith Shapiro was published a decade ago. Even though the book is problematic in many ways, the issues that it raises are …