> I was riffing a bit on Mao's infamous Hundred Flowers Campaign. "The policy
> of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend
> is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and
the progress of science." Depends on your threat model, I suppose.
The full quotation, taken from a speech of Mao's in Peking in February 1957, is:
"Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend
is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a
flourishing socialist culture in our land."
It is sometimes suggested that the initiative was a deliberate attempt to flush
out dissidents by encouraging them to show themselves as critical of the
regime. Whether or not it was a deliberate trap isn't clear but it is the case
that many of those who put forward views that were unwelcome to Mao were
executed.
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