Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: RE: private property?

[Jim Devine]

>I wrote:> as I've argued before, Mao didn't have complete control. He had 
>to respond
> > to the power and influence of CCP cadres, while the fact that his power 
> was
> > originally based on a peasant revolution limited his power.

Dennis Rodman -- no, Redmond -- wrote:
>Not what the historical record says. Mao destroyed or clipped the wings of 
>any cadre who became too threatening, from Lin Biao to Zhou Enlai. He was 
>extraordinarily good at the political version of guerilla warfare -- 
>striking where you least expected, killing chickens to scare monkeys, 
>playing off factions, etc.

My point is that since he used the peasants for this, what he could achieve 
was profoundly influenced by their interests. This can be good -- as with 
the Iron Rice bowl -- or bad -- as with the laws about non-peasants not 
holding certain offices.

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine