SNIPPET #2

Here's another snippet. As a bit of an aside, the same guy, Tim Johnson, also has another article from yesterday about how people still line up in droves to see Mao's mausoleum...maybe he should have picked a different title then.


THE FADING LEGACY OF MAO
BY TIM JOHNSON
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE

excerpt:

"But Mao's ideas appear to have little relevance. Long gone is the cradle-to-grave system of Spartan housing, medical care and schooling that was guaranteed to everyone after the revolution in 1949. Mao reviled capitalism and oversaw industrial and rural development based on egalitarianism and central government planning."


Yeah...housing, medical care, education...who the hell cares about that stuff any more?

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