Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

In the modern era, looking at the success of Taiwan, the genocidal mistakes of Mao, the anti communist feeling of the Cold War, McCarthy’s time, it is really hard to look at Mao and Communism as being the good guys.  The Chinese Revolution, however, was the robber barons vs the people.  China was in a mess.  The foreigners and the robber barons were in it together with the objective of exploiting the people.  It was almost like Marx had a real solution, not just identifying the problem.  There is a reason why Mao won.

I just have a problem, that from a Chinese perspective, China was still the center of the world.  World War II just a land skirmish.  It turned into an opportunity to collect munitions from the Americans for the real war.  The issues that were being fought over were quite different.