>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 historic
Norm --
I wish there were more erudite conservative discussion groups. Conservatism
on the web appears to be more passive -- original research done at the think
tanks, often filtered through popularizers and columnists, is voluminous and
available at the sites or delivered to your email. If you
At 07:58 AM 12/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>i can't find cyber-forums with a Conservatism or Right (meaning to the
>Left of Nazism and Monarchism) perspective at the same level of erudition as
>presented in PEN-L.* do they exist?
what, the Rush Limbaugh ditto-heads don't strive for intellectual excel
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Jim Devine 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.
Not what the historical record says. Ma
At 08:18 AM 12/7/00 -0800, you wrote:
>And if one person owns literally *everything*, the way that, say, Mao
>Zedong once owned mainland China through that Absolutist-style holding
>company otherwise known as the CCP?
as I've argued before, Mao didn't have complete control. He had to respond
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