Comments on Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikotter Joseph Ball LLCO.org, republished from Maoists.org Mao’s Great Famine is a sensational account of China during the Great Leap Forward. It argues the death toll in the Great Leap Forward was at least 45 million. It also claims that …
Review: Morning Sun (2003, Carma Hinton, Richard Gordon and Geremie R. Barmé) LLCO.rog “You young people are full of vigor and vitality. You are full of life. You are like the morning sun. You are our hope.” — Mao Zedong “When we saw the light of dawn, we felt as if this was the dawn …
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 …
This is review of Jasper Becker’s Hungry Ghosts by MIM takes a critical look at the claim that Mao was responsible for tens of millions of death during the Great Leap Forward, finding many scientific errors in the work of Becker and other liberal authors.
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 …
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 …
Book Review: Running on Emptiness by John Zerzan LLCO.org John Zerzan has been one of the more popular anarchist writers of the past two decades. He is considered one of the main theorists of anarcho-primitivism or green anarchism. His neo-Luddite politics have come to be associated with the 1999 WTO protests a.k.a. “the battle of …
Review of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Part 3/3 LLCO.org Read part 1/3 here. Read part 2/3 here. “Capital was constantly in motion from the metropole to some part of the dependencies, from colonies to other colonies (via the metropoles), from one metropole to another, and from colony to metropole. But because of the …
Review of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Part 2/3 LLCO.org Part 1/3: https://llco.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-13/ Part 3/3: https://llco.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-33/ In order to understand why Africa is so impoverished and powerless today, one has to examine the history of power and economy. Development, underdevelopment and power are intertwined. Africa today is a product of its past, just as …
Review of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Part 1/3 LLCO.org Part 2/3: https://llco.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-23/ Part 3/3: https://llco.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-33/ Walter Rodney was a writer and activist who was influential in the anti-imperialist, the Black Power, and socialist movements across the Black and African worlds. In 1980, Rodney was assassinated in his homeland of Guyana by a car …