Salvador Dali Quotes

As the first generation of Chinese Communism passes, we are baffled by its unexpected successes

From 1945 to 1991, China was engaged in a series of wars that nearly broke them. This generation has been through hell: the Great Leap Forward, hunger, starvation, near collision with the Russians - the Cultural Revolution gone mad. I have no doubt that this generation wants a peaceful rise.

Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thing and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic achievement.

Mao Zedong was a revolutionary. He made a revolution.

Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teaching and act according to his instructions.

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.

In 1925 - 27 the revolution in China was destroyed by the false revolutionary strategy of the Stalinist faction. To this last question I consecrate my book, Problems of the Chinese Revolution (issued by the Pioneer Publishers, New York 1932).

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture.

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.

It's not those punks in the street [left wing radicals] that worry me, it's the right wing. That's the real beast if it ever gets unleashed.

We do not recognize the Communist regime on the mainland. We consider them bandits.

Socialists should be delighted to find at last a socialist (Mussolini) who speaks and thinks as responsible rulers do

Anti-Americanism is a form of Fascism.

When it became clear that they [the Chinese Communists] were going to take power, … the American officials in China were of different minds: there were some who felt that Chiang should be supported to the last ditch, and there were others who felt that Chiang had served his purpose, he could not rule effectively, the communists would win anyway, and that therefore there had to be established a working relationship with the communists.

We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism and from the left socialism without internationalism.

The nationalist right and the nebulously but fervently revolutionary left found each other once more in Fascism with its double face of conservatism and subversion.

The Great Leap Forward

In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

If we haven't become the Liberty Party of an undoubted future, let us take this fact: the great totalitarian regimes have died. The Soviet Union broke up along ethnic lines, as we always thought it would. The Chinese - am I wrong? - are becoming a commercial civilization.

We must wait for the official history of the Chinese Revolution to record in greater detail the invaluable work of our Japanese friends.

Domestically, a lot of people think Xi Jinping is becoming Mao Zedong. By giving Hong Kong democracy, people would look at them as enlightened leaders.

I was born and grew up in China during the 1960s.