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Two Cultural Revolutions, Many Scary Similarities

Two Cultural Revolutions, Many Scary Similarities

Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning, by Xi Van Fleet, New York: Center Street, 2023, 320 pages, hardcover. ...
William P. Hoar

Division abounds — as do indoctrination, coercion, cancelation, and violence. Traditional culture is under fire, threatened with being replaced by Marxist ideology. Young people have been weaponized as enforcers. Statues are being toppled and defaced by mobs, with history being rewritten. Ultimate goals include achieving absolute power for the central government and the loss of freedom for individuals.

What era, you might wonder, is being described?

That is the point, and it is a serious matter that is at hand. There are two main periods involved, with incisive looks at what has been going on in this country of late as well as personal memories of the evil times of Mao Zedong’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) by a woman who has lived through both periods.

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