http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2007/12/19/mao-and-the-art-of-management/ Uniting the Asian Conscience Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:15:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2007/12/19/mao-and-the-art-of-management/#comment-3821 topdawg Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:15:52 +0000 http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2007/12/19/mao-and-the-art-of-management/#comment-3821 Hmm... I don't know how exactly to make of this. There's certainly mockery in the author's voice of Mao's malpractices, but without a doubt the guy's probably amazed at how Mao could have pulled off his shambling time after time. Now that I am no communist sympathizer, and I agree that the man's got too much of a grip on the Chinese people's heart, and they're still paying for it. I have to admit, though, that Mao's self-aggrandisement and megalomania are rightly compared by the author to other historical madmen in Stalin and Jun Chi Huong. Afterall, Mao really made himself nothing less than a god. But it is still hard to say afterall, how China would have been without the man. One has to understand that he revived the heart of the country, and turned its image from the weak man of Asia to this somehow menacing by respectable force to reckon with. He organized the farmers to rise against the invading Japanese army, when the nationalist army merely cowered and let the country taken over. He also led the country to stand up against the "imperialist" USA, that includes the building of their own nuclear weapon and satellite. All the failures aside, China is not China without Mao. The author seems to think that Deng Xiao Ping deserves his share of national platitude, based solely on his adaptation of the capitalist practice. But he did little, compared to Mao, in "building" the country's heart and image. Hmm… I don’t know how exactly to make of this. There’s certainly mockery in the author’s voice of Mao’s malpractices, but without a doubt the guy’s probably amazed at how Mao could have pulled off his shambling time after time. Now that I am no communist sympathizer, and I agree that the man’s got too much of a grip on the Chinese people’s heart, and they’re still paying for it. I have to admit, though, that Mao’s self-aggrandisement and megalomania are rightly compared by the author to other historical madmen in Stalin and Jun Chi Huong. Afterall, Mao really made himself nothing less than a god.
But it is still hard to say afterall, how China would have been without the man. One has to understand that he revived the heart of the country, and turned its image from the weak man of Asia to this somehow menacing by respectable force to reckon with. He organized the farmers to rise against the invading Japanese army, when the nationalist army merely cowered and let the country taken over. He also led the country to stand up against the “imperialist” USA, that includes the building of their own nuclear weapon and satellite. All the failures aside, China is not China without Mao. The author seems to think that Deng Xiao Ping deserves his share of national platitude, based solely on his adaptation of the capitalist practice. But he did little, compared to Mao, in “building” the country’s heart and image.

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