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Warning: This article contains deeply disturbing depictions of the crimes of Communism.
It was 1967. America was two years away from landing on the moon and Chinese Communists were eating people. The Communists hadn’t turned cannibal because of hunger, but politics.
Mao’s cultural revolution had already led to brutal lynchings of teachers and principals by the Red Guards unleashed by the Communist regime to purge all ideological deviation, but beating political opponents to death wasn’t enough for the radical mobs in the Guangxi region.
By the end of the cultural revolution, as many as 20,000 Communists had eaten human flesh.
While the four hundred people cannibalized were a relatively small number compared to the estimated three million killed in the cultural revolution, and the 100,000 or so killed for ideological reasons without being eaten by Communists in the Guangxi region, they serve as a reminder of the depths of horror and evil that the Communist movement had descended to.
And to which it may end up returning once again.
Cannibalism was only one of the atrocities of the cultural revolution which included “beheading, beating, live burial, stoning, drowning, boiling, group slaughters, disemboweling, digging out hearts, livers, genitals, slicing off flesh, blowing up with dynamite and more”.
Communist officials organized cannibal orgies as a test of political loyalty. Friends, associates and close family members had to eat the flesh of dissidents to prove their ideological allegiance.
The orgies soon gave way to a banality of evil best described in one of the passages in Zheng Yi’s definitive book ‘Scarlet Memorial’ about the culture war cannibalism. “Strolling down the street, the director of the local Bureau of Commerce carried a human leg on his shoulder, which he was taking home to boil and consume. On the leg there still hung a piece of a man’s trouser.”
The killings began with struggle sessions, the victims, whether they were doctors, teachers or peasants, men and women who had once had money, visited foreign countries or stood in the way of Mao’s agenda, were paraded up and down the streets, berated and humiliated, and then beaten to death by waiting mobs. But eventually just beating them to death was not enough.
Like their originators in the French Revolution, the Communist found new cruelties. They killed parents in front of children. They buried their victims alive. They mutilated them. And ate them.
What began as mob violence where Red Guard “students killed their principals in the school courtyard and then cooked and ate the bodies to celebrate a triumph over ‘counterrevolutionaries'”, became formalized as government cafeterias displayed “bodies dangling on meat hooks” and “served human flesh to employees.”
A geography teacher had his heart and liver cut out. The “flesh was cooked in three places: One was the school kitchen… when the flesh was cooked, seven or eight students consumed it together.”
In one typical incident, a self-criticism rally (a struggle session) was held during which the targets had to get up on stage while they were berated and denounced. During the cultural revolution, such ‘rallies’ often ended in murder, but what happened next was worse. Instead of just killing them, the bodies of the dead “were stripped of flesh, which was taken back to the front of the brigade office to be boiled in two big pots. Twenty or thirty people participated in the cannibalism. Right out in the open, they boiled human flesh in front of the local government offices.”
The horrors were all part of a calculated plan. The Communist leaders assigned quotas to the Red Guards for how many people had to be killed. Mobs were encouraged to beat people to death because then the “masses can be educated in a relatively more efficient way.” The order was that after three days “one-fourth of the social dregs must be bludgeoned to death.”
“Model demonstrations of killing” were held before ‘communes’ were turned loose to kill people on their own. Thousands of people were being killed with fists and stones across the region in the name of the Communist Party. Entire families, men, women and children, even babies, were brutally killed by the Cultural Revolution’s cadres. Some were raped and tortured.
Girls had been encouraged to take the lead in the Cultural Revolution from the beginning. During the mass killings they were encouraged, “to do the killing and later they would address them as ‘sister nine’ or ‘sister ten’ based on the number of people they had killed.”
Sons begged for the lives of their mothers. Mothers begged for the lives of their children. “Please leave me one.” Ropes were put around the necks of children and they were dragged to their deaths through the dust for the greater glory of the Communist cause.
A mother trying to hide the truth from her little boy until the end dressed him in his best clothes, telling him that his “‘uncles’ were coming to take him to grandma’s.”
The convergence of Communism and Chinese folk medicine with its emphasis on the value of particular organs led to mobs harvesting and eating human hearts and livers for their medicinal value. Peasants recruited into the Communist mobs believed that eating human hearts would help them live longer. While some were forced to eat body parts, others eagerly joined in.
“There are many varieties of cannibalism and among them are these: killing someone and making a late dinner of it, slicing off the meat and having a big party, dividing up the flesh so each person takes a large chunk home to boil, roasting the liver and eating it for its medicinal properties,” a report described.
Among the endless horrors of the Communist mobs was “the practice of cutting out a person’s organs and frying them in oil while the victim was still alive.” A man being castrated pleaded, “let me die first then you can cut it.” The Communist killers however paid no attention to his pleas.
“Party members, cadres, land reform activists and the poor and lower-middle peasants” demanded the death of one particular victim. And then his disemboweling. A report described how one of the killers “extracted the organs, cut them into pieces and laid everything out on a board.”
The killer, who was an old man when he was interviewed for ‘Scarlet Memorial’, described how “the heart was cut into finger-sized slices. People in the crowd struggled to get a piece. The people were so numerous that I didn’t even get a share.”
The Communist machine kept detailed records of all the various atrocities it had committed.
A report described how a teacher heard that “consuming a ‘beauty’s heart’ could cure disease. “He then labeled a beautiful 13-or-14-year-old student of his as a ‘target of dictatorship’ and singled her out for killing.
This term from the ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’, the essence of Communism, licensed all killings of those branded as enemies of the people as the revolutionary will of the people.
“After the little girl was done in”, he remained and “cut open the girl’s chest with a duck-beak shaped tool, dug out her heart and took it home to enjoy.” At the time she was killed, the girl had been carrying her baby brother in a sling over her front.”
Much as during the French Revolution, old women would appear with baskets, but in Communist China, they were not there to knit. “Immediately after a victim was killed, the crowd would rush forward. Those at the forefront would get the good pieces of flesh. Those who came later divided up the bones among themselves.”
A female vice chairwoman of the Wuxuan Revolutionary Committee “after engaging in several revolutionary actions, became something of a specialist in consuming male reproductive organs.” The Communist Central Committee became upset at this obscene behavior, but were reassured when “subsequent investigation revealed that her cannibalism had been limited to the flesh and livers so she was allowed to remain in the Party.” The Communist leader in question was notable for her kindness in bringing “two pieces of flesh back home to her mother.”
“Feasts of human flesh” presided over by high-ranking Party members were held at fairs. Livers and hearts were quickly cut out and in cases prepared and cooked on the spot. As the killings continued, the cannibalism took on a professional culinary tone. “The Huangmao Food and Supply Store was among the most prominent sites of cannibalism. A large pot, eight feet in diameter, was used to boil the victims.”
In 1968, the Communist cannibalism finally ended. The Chinese Communist Party at the national level gave the order to end it immediately and a prolonged cover-up began. But the violence had served its larger purpose in Mao’s Cultural Revolution power struggle.
While word of it reached America early on, American leftists refused to believe it. It was not until the publication and translation of ‘Scarlet Memorial’, which was reviewed by the New York Times and the Washington Post in the nineties, that the facts were established.
And then quickly forgotten.
American leftists had been complicit in the horrors of Communist China and the Cultural Revolution. And they still are. Why does this litany of horrors in a far off country matter?
As Gov. Tim Walz’s 30-year relationship with China is scrutinized, it’s worth noting that a news story described how, “Walz has always been fascinated by Communist China. He remembers from his childhood pictures of Mao Tse-Tung hung in public places and carried in parades.”
While these horrors were taking place, Western intellectuals and journalists returned from Communist China (as they had the USSR and Nazi Germany), and denied that anything terrible was going on.
A few years after the cannibalism, American Communist sympathizers set up the US-China Peoples Friendship Association (USCPFA) to “advance the interests of Communist China and world communism.” And in 2019, Gov. Walz was scheduled to appear at USCPFA’s convention.
That romanticism of Maoism remains. Maoist movements continue to lead the way in what many are calling the contemporary ‘Cultural Revolution’ on college campuses and public life. They play a crucial role in some of the most violent riots calling for the destruction of America.
Americans certain that this litany of horrors in a far-off place could never happen here all too quickly forget the sudden permission structure that licensed the random violence of the BLM riots, the Hamas mobs rampaging through cities and campuses and the vandalism of public places by a long list of radical leftist movements including Occupy Wall Street.
The underlying permission structure for ideological violence, for the dehumanization and targeting of some individuals and groups for political reasons, is just as alive in America.
Past surveys showed that 1 in 5 Ivy League students “expressed some level of acceptance for violence” for stopping campus speeches they didn’t like. Last year’s Buckley Institute survey found that nearly half of students agreed that “physical violence can be justified to prevent that person from espousing their hateful views.” Last year, a FIRE survey found that 1 in 3 students “believe it can be acceptable in at least some circumstances to use violence to stop a campus speech.” The campus numbers are trending toward growing acceptability of political violence.
The cannibalism described in ‘Scarlet Memorial’ is at the farthest and most extreme end of leftist violence, but it is part of a continuum of ideological violence that we are seeing today. It is the final endpoint of the leftist argument that anything is acceptable for the sake of social change.
Political mob violence, once underway, unleashes the worst evils inherent in human nature. That is as true of Communist cannibalism in China as it is true of Black Lives Matter. Convince a mob that it is oppressed and duty bound to do anything to end the oppression and it will do anything.
Anything at all.
The history of the Left, from the French Revolution to the USSR to Cuba, China and Cambodia, testifies to the horrors unleashed by the same ideology that is now taking over America.
And unless we learn from the history of the untold millions killed by the Left, we will repeat it.
Condor says
Thank you, Daniel, for this excellent article. This is the history of Communism and Maoism that is not being taught in our education system. Instead they are too often fed a diet of socialist, anti-capitalist dogma from the comrades embedded in our universities (and even lower grades now). As Lenin once said, “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sewn will never be uprooted.” We are witnessing the fruits of those teachings.
For some further reading on Maoist movements that have emerged in Western countries, I highly recommend the book “The Strategy of Maoism in the West: Rage and the Radical Left” (Edward Elgar, 2022) by David Martin Jones and M. L. R. Smith (both of King’s College London).
Daniel Greenfield says
Thank you, though I have to say, much of it was uprooted, people just had to experience Communism for themselves
Condor says
True. Sadly, more than 100 million souls never survived their experience with Communism, and I fear we are entering an era where we will have to experience it again as its history has been unlearned, erased, or never taught.
Jeff Bargholz says
More like 200 million or more. Mao murdered 100 million to 150 million people and any upper estimate is more likely accurate because his cultural devolution kept lousy records and lied extensively to boot. Planned famines and ones caused by stupid incompetence are genocide, not just murder by violence. I don’t believe the old 70 million murder estimate for a second.. Stalin, Hitler and Imperial Japan were pikers compared the fat little syphilis sufferer. (Ha, haw! I hope the little monster’s tiny dick rotted off before he died.)
An elderly couple who had lived in China for fifty or sixty years or so wrote a book about China which included extensive research on Mao’s Great Stumble Backward and they estimate that the Chairman of Death likely murdered up to 200 million. They wrote the book after they finally left China, of course.
I wish I could remember their names or the name of their book. I’ve been looking for it for years with no break. It’s a very good book and a good research tool.
Jeff Bargholz says
Hitler said similar things about German children. Gross minds think alike.
LLL says
Who were “The Power” BEHIND Mao’s Depopulation program ?
Who were the power behind Hitler, Stalin, …. ?
Rob A says
Interesting article. However, it doesn’t go into what led to the cannibalism. Long story short: you can’t ignorantly and stupidly kill off an entire species of bird (sparrows) without serious consequences for the food chain.
A quick synopsis: In China around harvest time, locusts would swarm and fed on the crops. But they didn’t destroy all of the crops because the sparrows fed on the locusts which keeping them in check and limit the damage to the crops. With no sparrows around to fed on the locusts……
To further expand: In 1958, Mao Zedong ordered the killing of all sparrows. The mindless war on birds that ensued led to terrible plagues, exacerbated the Great Famine which precipitated acts of cannibalism on a wide scale.,
Mao Zedong was an illiterate man who didn’t believe in science and had no regard for the laws of nature. In fact, Mao actually believed that he bring nature under his control. To make matters worse, Mao was anti-intellectual and thus disregarded the warnings of the scientists (Mao likely hard the scientists killed and eaten! But I digress.).
Once all the sparrows we killed off, the swarms of locusts dramatically increased year over year until they eventually consumed everything that was grown. With no crops to harvest, no food to eat and given China’s population size, cannibalism ensued which was virtually inevitable.
Sandman says
Mao truly was enamored by the notion of “What can be, unburdened by what has been”.
We have been warned, people. When a person striving towards high elected office quotes the illiterate, murderous thug Mao be certain that murder and other atrocities aren’t far behind.
Rob A says
When a person striving towards high elected office….”
Those very words are why I have such a deep seated animosity towards politicians. Not the person per se but the character traits of such a person. They tend to be megalomaniacal, often exhibit psychopathic behavior, have egos the size of Jupiter, tend to think they’re the smartest person in the room, pretentious, supercilious and are habitual liars.
stuBdoc says
As I have always said, if you want to be president, you are already the wrong person for the job. The quality most required is ambition, and that almost always leads to bad things. I agree with you 100%.
Jeff Bargholz says
Too true, although there are exceptions. Some men become President out of a sense of duty and responsibility, like Washington, Lincoln and Trump, for instance. There is a very small fraction of people in Congress who’re the same although I would search there were some terms where they were all scumbags.
The vast majority of politicians are exactly as you describe, graft pigs who are also power mad scumbags. Those are the wrong people for the jobs before they even run for office.
Michael Peppe says
The greatest virtue for a president is probably a lack of ambition for power, like Solon, who after giving Athens its code of laws, went traveling the world for a decade. And the Congressional Electors had to practically beg Washington to serve a second term. But of course real ambitionlessness can never attain power, as it can’t compete with the vast hordes compelled to seek it.
MuggsSpongedice says
I’m not going to bother to research your comment – but it seems plausible considering the idiocy of communism – look at the USA and the idiocy and lunacy of communism when free market capitalism has made USA and the free world including China technologically productive
Daniel Greenfield says
The Four Pests campaign led to a massive catastrophe, but arguably by design, since Mao was less concerned with the welfare of the people than with provoking crises to stay in power.
Any resemblance to American leftists?
I should also note that lefties claim the mantle of environmentalism, but the USSR and China were responsible for some of the worst environmental catastrophes around.
Of course that’s never discussed.
Condor says
Thanks, Rob. Good background. Two books I can recommend on Mao’s great famine are “Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962” by Yang Jisheng, and “Hungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine” by Jasper Becker. These should be on the reading list for any course on “History of Communist China” taught at the HS and university level. Unfortunately too many Americans “don’t know much about history..”
Another aspect of this history that is not widely known is just how communist agents and sympathizers embedded in U.S. administrations (FDR and Truman) helped Mao prevail in the Chinese civil war. See for example the book “American Betrayal” by Diana West. That book reveals in detail just how compromised the Executive branch of the U.S. had become through Communist agents and fellow travels in senior positions starting well before WWII.
Rob A says
I’m aware of that history also. Isn’t it interesting that where ever we stick our noses up other countries ying-yang and get too deeply involved, more often than not it has blown up in our faces? Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Vietnam, Central and South America and Bosnia comes to immediate mind. Mao got a lot of help from the US. And least not forget that the US shipped arms, ammo and supplies to Stalin and his red army during WW-2.
And the US did/does it in the name of “fighting communism.” That hasn’t worked to well for us over the long run.
And why were we supporting Saddam Hussein when the Baathist Party (Saddam was a Baathist) was/is the Islamic version of the German Nazi party? As the saying goes, truth is often stranger than fiction.
Matia says
Truman was responsible for firing Douglass MacArthur: FDR for the Japanese American internment camps. I had no idea whatsoever about the cruel and evil Maoist Chinese cannibalism. Those atrocities are very disturbing to read about to say the least. I’ve learned so much from this site. Thank you!
HM says
‘American Betrayal’ is a must read.
So is ‘Political Pilgrims’ (Hollander), which details American intellectuals’ love affair with the USSR of the ’20s and ’30s.
Allan Goldstein says
Let me get this straight…
While WE were watching “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner”, THEY were playing **Guess Who Is Dinner** ??
Love It ❤️❗
Jeff Bargholz says
I knew there was a reason I don’t like Chinese food.
MuggsSpongedice says
you must try the stir fried locusts — because that is what they are going to feed us with their demonic woke communisism if President Trump is not elected!!!!!
Rob A says
According to Bob Marley: Natty Dreadlock!! Bada bing!!
Chairman LMAO says
Two cannibals were seated next to each other. One turned to the other and said “I hate my mother-in-law!”
The other replied “It is impolite to talk with your mouth full.”
MuggsSpongedice says
You attempt at one liners has finally paid off – but your one liner batting average is why you should not give up your day job at the bagel shop.
That is a joke between two lonsmen
Algorithmic Analyst says
Great article Daniel, many thanks !!!!!
Barry Spinello says
What proof are you offering for these atrocities? Bad. Yes. Horrible. Yes. But what proof do you have for what you offer as factual to what happened. Sorry.
William Wallace says
The quotes are from this book: Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China
an amazing read.
Jeff Bargholz says
Why? Are you thinking of Chinese food for dinner? Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien or Sichuan? I hear Sichuan is the spiciest because of all the chilies they eat.
MuggsSpongedice says
Why don’t you do research before you make stupid comments because you have a lazy mind and no doubt spoon fed whatever the main sleaze media vomits into your head?
Daniel Greenfield says
You can secure a copy of Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China for yourself.
https://amzn.to/4eR4bbr
He tried his best to document events using, among other things, archival materials and reports from the Chinese Communist Party.
The story also received some coverage back during the 90s.
You can also find academic literature on the subject. e.g.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/comparative-studies-in-society-and-history/article/abs/consuming-counterrevolution-the-ritual-and-culture-of-cannibalism-in-wuxuan-guangxi-china-may-to-july-1968/9D7B3DD84CF53C31B35E8C97D99BF9AE
Jeff Bargholz says
I never knew any of this stuff. It’s probably grislier than the most repulsive gore-fest movie ever made, and there have been some extremely sick ones. I hate those movies. I hope Hollywood never finds out about this because some sicko there would doubtlessly make a graphic movie about it, probably with the cannibal commies presented sympathetically.
The commie chick who ate dicks was the most horrific but all the descriptions of cannibalism were bad enough to give me nightmares. I sure hope Madame Dong doesn’t show up in my dreams.
Raymond in DC says
Someone did make a movie about the Ukrainian famine of the 1930’s and the Welch journalist who worked to expose it. It’s called ‘Mr. Jones’. It also portrays The NY Times reporter who worked to hide it. And yes, there’s a scene of a desperate young family that resorts to cannibalism to survive.
Allan Goldstein says
Can you recommend a cookbook?
Jeff Bargholz says
“To Serve Man.”
HM says
I remember reading an article about this in either Time or Newsweek in a doctor’s waiting room either in the late ’80s or early 90’s. There was some unrest going on in China at the time (localized rioting ) and it appeared that cannibalism was being practiced that recently. So it wasn’t just in the 50s or 60s. If I recall, the latter stuff was taking place in the SE or SW part of the country.
Rob A says
Are we to believe that you’d rather trust what the Chinese Communist Party has to say on the matter rather than take the word of the thousands of Chinese people who actually survived that period and have spoken out about it.?
The proof is out there in abundance if you bothered to look but I doubt that you will. By asking for such proof, you’ve implied you’re sympathy towards communism.
If so then why are you trolling this forum? Don’t you have better things to do? Like attend a Kamala Harris gathering (not enough people attend to call it a rally)?
Word on the street is they’ll pay you to attend and provide you with a free box lunch (Wonder Bread sh*t sammich topped with mayo (or mustard), a lunch box size bag of Doritos or Cheetos and an apple!)
Barry Spinello says
References should have been provided in the article. Maybe they were but I missed them. Lacking that, it veers towards hysteria. There are plenty of hysterical rantings from the left about. the right. Rather not see such exaggeration going in the other direction. In any case – reality is hard to establish after the fact.
I simply would like to have seen a reference provided. (Maybe I missed it). Such reference apparently has been subsequently provided.
David. Kerst says
Thank you for your Work Daniel. This article. Is Stunning. And yet Not Surprising. I don’t remember the Author, but Your article reminds me of the Book (Bitter Winds). And all of its Brutality. Communism. Is a Failure. And They prove it every Day. Godless and Savage. They lie. Cheat and Steal to get power and even murder. Gee. You’d think I was talking about the Democrat Party.
Daniel Greenfield says
That’s the ugly beating heart of the Left. Its credo is absolute power and once it gains it, absolute cruelty.
Rob A says
Dan, I’m sure you understand that such things are utopian bliss to the left. Cruelty is an orgasmic experience for them. They live to be cruel and sadistic towards anyone who disagrees with them.
Daniel Greenfield says
the purpose of power is power, a boot stamping on a human face forever
Rob A says
Agreed! And they have the gall to hawk their brand of totalitarianism as somehow good for the country? Really? That’s the equivalent of selling hemlock or cyanide as a cure all elixir!
Jeff Bargholz says
Well Rob A, technically hemlock or cyanide would cure all the other maladies a person might have……
Madeline Brooks says
Cruelty as an orgasm for the left….Yes, that defines them, and needs to be recognized more broadly.
Siddi Nasrani says
Of topic but your quote reminds of the cult of Islam, once in power madness pursues.
Thank for the article I had no idea that in Communist China that cannibalism took place.
Did this happen in Russia by any chance?
Algorithmic Analyst says
Lots of cannibalism in Russia during the mass starvations under Lenin.
Jeff Bargholz says
Many Soviets did resort to eating the dead during the battle of Stalingrad but that was nothing like the Chinese commie cannibalism, which was worse than a zombie movie based on the descriptions in this article.
Barry Spinello says
“…the professed long range political aim of the two major social forces of the day, which at once unite and divide mankind, Marxism and Christianity, is precisely the same. All Christians as well as Marxists must believe in communism as an article of faith. (and both finding it much harder to reach than they expected). They differ
only in the tactics they regard essential to achieving it. Peter Putnam: Linkage of Syntax, 1966
DIFFERENT TACTICS: Marxists use brute force to change minds: the hammer and sickle. Christians rely on the Cross: a personal and painful inner struggle for truth.
This is a difficult concept to accept – Holy Communion and Communism are rooted in the same motivation – universal brotherhood. This explains the great appeal Communism has had – until they realize brotherhood via economics loses.
Nachum Derovan says
And Tim Walz visited Communist China 30+ times including his honeymoon?
Allan Goldstein says
He was hungry.. ~
😃
Allan Goldstein says
…for Chinese food. ~~
😆
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes and many of his trips were arranged and managed by the United Front, which is “a network of groups and key individuals that are influenced or controlled by the CCP and used to advance its interests.”
And Tiananman Timbecile took high school students to China many times to be indoctrinated and doubtlessly recruited by the United Front. He’s as big a traitor as Beijing Biden but he doesn’t seem to have enriched himself with CCP bribes the way Bought-Off Biden did.
Jack Rail says
The spiritual rabies of evil. Again.
Intrepid says
I remember Obama’s first Christmas in the WH. There was a certain Christmas ornament that year. A Mao ornament.
Yes, they were Maoists. These are very sick people. They are traitors. Especially Anita Dunn who said she admired Mao.
I am not surprised Harris picked Commie lover Walz as her running mate. Harris’ parents were/are communists.
Hopefully this election is the beginning of the end of our fascination and obsession with the Obama/Hillary era
Intrepid says
Unfortunately for you, Objectivism will never be taught at a high school or a university. Why? Because there is zero demand for it and you are a complete goofball.
I gave you more than one place where you could actually go and apply for a teaching job but knowing you as I do, it’s so much easier to sit around and complain. People like you are the reason no one knows or cares about Objectivism.
You would rather copy and paste Lenny’s drivel for the one millionth time, and tell yourself you are actually accomplishing something, rather than getting off your a$$ and look for teaching job.
Sucks to be you.
William Wallace says
More from your religious worship of Rand. Your faith in her and her philosophy is interesting only because it is coupled with your atheism. You put your faith in a human being who lived and died and faded except for a few cultish followers like yourself, yet you mock people who believe in the Creator and his Son who died, rose again, in payment for sins. We all place our faith in something; you in Rand and her temporal ramblings, me in the living God who has the word of truth for eternity.
Intrepid says
Well written, sir.
Wallace is a hero of mine.
Kynarion Hellenis says
THX’s LOGOS is man’s mind, which he defines as “reason.” Ayn Rand once proclaimed to be god, and her little gathering of disciples she called “the collective.” She believed in neither, but was comfortable assuming positions of ultimate authority as any tin-pot dictator. Her personal morality allowed her to discard the marriages of others, and yet peevishly punish her adulterous lover when he found someone younger.
She was untethered by anything except her own lust for power and worship, justifying herself by her unoriginal thinking she dubbed “rationalism.” Her attraction is basically the oldest in the world – “Thou shalt not surely die, but thine eyes shall be opened and ye shall be like God.”
THX is unable to do more than regurgitate sound bites of Randian writings, but is plagued by irrational hatred for Christianity. He has demonstrated both inability and unwillingness to grapple with reason and logic and usually does a “hit and run” when his own presuppositions begin to emerge as irrational – pretending that his questioner is unworthy of further engagement.
He is more the enemy of religion than he is the apostle of objectivity. But, if you think about it, how could it be any other way?
I pray for THX. That might infuriate him, but God has redeemed much worse and more foolish than he.
Steve says
I’m sure the Great Narcissist wasn’t limiting himself to eating dogs.
Jeff Bargholz says
I heard he used to gobble hot dogs in bath houses.
James Glynn says
I have no doubt that in the end our supposed “elite” betters would participate gladly in the cannibalism of all who disagree with their views.
Intrepid says
You will never understand what a conservative really is. Nixon and Bush were establishment “conservatives” or RINOs.
The MAGA movement is throwing them out. They are done.
But please vote for Harris. She is more your type. She seems to really like beta males.
internalexile says
This is very much in keeping with Jung Chang’s “Mao, the Unknown Story,” which is filled with tales of jaw-dropping cruelty based on a mad quest for ideological purity.. The left hated that book, as well, but she backed up every report with input from at least two, and usually three, eyewitnesses who were actually there. A great, if deeply disturbing, read.
Anita says
The killing of the sparrows was part of the Four Pests campaign.
Four Pests was viewed as a way to stop the spread of disease by eradicating the country’s four major pestilence-causing pests. This hygiene campaign targeted mosquitoes, rodents, flies, and sparrows. A law was quickly passed in 1959 requiring Chinese citizens to participate in targeting sparrows. People hit pots and pans together to prevent sparrows from resting in their nests all over the country. Nests were destroyed and any bird found was killed, forcing them out of their natural habitat, searching for safer areas.By 1960, locusts overtook rice crops, limiting the food supply and initiating a famine for the Chinese. The intricate ecosystem of China had been broken, and the consequences were far-reaching for the world’s most populous country.The People’s Republic of China had to import 250,000 sparrows from the Soviet Union to stop the ecological disruption. After successfully importing sparrows back into the ecosystem, the sparrows were able to keep locus populations from devastating crops. source: https://www.historydefined.net/how-killing-sparrows-led-to-one-of-the-greatest-famines-in-history/
Rather interesting how the Dems in this country are obsessed with “climate change” and controlling the weather, etc. Hmmm
Rob A says
Every worse, I have yet to hear any of them account for the symbiotic relationship between plant and animals. They rant and rave about Climate change without an actual understanding of the science involved.
The earth is some 4.5 billion years old. Humankind has existed for some 300,000 years. That’s approximately o.oo6% of the time that the earth has existed and climate change dumbasses think we can seriously affect the planet? Compared to the age of the earth, the human lifespan is far less than a blink of an eye.
The earth is a living entity and is more than capable of undoing any damage that humans have done (via earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, ice ages, floods, warming periods, etc.) over the course of time. So-called climate change is as natural to the earth as is breathing air for us. In fact, the conditions we enjoy today would not be possible if earth’s climate was static.
Alas, the empty headed climate change jackasses seems oblivious to that fact. If they were completely honest and had any courage, they would openly declare that they intend to orderly exterminate some 6 to 7 billion+ people sooner rather than later. It’s the only logical, rational and practical solution to their maniacal fears about human caused climate change.
One billion years from now when the human species has long since gone extinct, the earth will still be here and so-called climate change won’t mean crap.
Jeff Bargholz says
The Dirtbagocrats would have us citizens eating locusts.
Rob A says
Eat Bugs? They’re welcome to eat all the bugs they want until their hearts are content. But I’ll tell you this much: the first brain dead asshole that gets in my face and suggest that I eat bugs is going to get seriously hurt.
JustPassingThru says
Without Central Banks communism is not possible:
Communism is only possible when it is supported by capital that is controlled by a progressive central banking system. Eventually, one cannot survive without the other, and today we are living in a world where both communism and crony capitalism are merging into a Marxist global superstate.- Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution The Remarkable True Story of The American Capitalists Who Financed The Russian Communists by Anthony C. Sutton
Steve Kardas says
Thank you David. The truth can be hard to take, but it is still the truth. “Commie totalitarian states are built on mountains of dead bodies.”
Daniel Greenfield says
There was a famous cartoon I recall of Stalin, Mao, Fidel and the gang walking along a road paved with skulls. Some of the famed soviet highways literally were built that way as workers died every mile.
Allan Goldstein says
The trans Siberian railroad…
Jeff Bargholz says
We should send all our trannies there.
Spurwing Plover says
By far the Commies were far worse then the Nazis were when it comes to mass murder and famine Mouse-E-Dung was bigger mass Murderer then Hitler and if PETA knew a bout his camapaign against Sparrows they would have Lynched him for sure
Daniel Greenfield says
Both the Nazis and Communists were utopian socialist mass murderers. The Nazis had a narrower focus and they killed in a systematic intentional way. A lot of the Communist killings were based on unleashing violence or creating conditions where people simply could not survive.
Given a chance, both the Nazis and Communists would have wiped out much of the human race to create their utopias.
Rob A says
“Given a chance, both the Nazis and Communists would have wiped out much of the human race to create their utopias.”
So true. It’s why Nazism was never going to be just a European problem and we’re living with the consequences of not nipping communism in the bud.
If only we had listened to Gen. George S. Patton and Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Hundreds of million of lives wouldn’t have been cruelly taken.
Jeff Bargholz says
Mao especially was willing and even eager to sacrifice millions for his idea of utopia. Half the Chinese population dead, preferably by starvation, was his warped ideal, as you know. All the quotes attributed to him are psychotically violent and despotic. I seriously doubt he was sane.
cat says
PETA is not what you think it is. I think PETA hates humans and animals.
Yeah, I continue to get upset when Nazis are compared favorably to Hamas or Chinese communists. What a benchmark! I do see the point. But considering they slaughtered with no sympathy or conscience, I cant find them preferable just because they had spiffy uniforms, kept meticulous records, and listened to classical music while they killed my family.
Rob A says
If those PETA morons had the courage of their convictions, they would go to the grocery market and buy a gallon of bleach and drink it. Problem solved.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, when evil reaches the levels of the Nazis, Hamas and the Chinese cannibal commies it’s immeasurable.
Onzeur Trante says
Horrific content to say the least. The US already has one foot inside the circle of revolution, and while we likely (hopefully) won’t see similar scenarios to those described above, who knows tomorrow?
A majority, 82% in polls, say the country is headed in the “wrong direction.” But how will that 82% vote?
No one knows. Election results will impact the course of the revolution but will not stop it…
Cassandra says
Please bear witness to what is happening in uk, we will get there ahead of you. Already the government is going to pay ‘reparations’ to millions of west Indians who were never slaves with money from taxpayers who never held slaves.
Now we are warned there will be blackouts because this government is shutting down power stations, encouraging electric vehicles at the same time.
Stopping annual Winter heating allowance for the elderly forcing them to choose between heat and food.
Blocking arms to Israel as their voter base are fanatical muslims.
Not arresting muslims for violent crimes and bringing in millions more( see video of filthy invader with gun tattooed on face, threatening us before crossing the Channel.
Our PM does not care for Parliament and answers only to WEF.
Daniel Greenfield says
It’s a horrendous time. Sadly we’re experiencing it too.
MuggsSpongedice says
Professor Dan made us pee our pants in fear as he relates the history of human brutality to humans. China Chinese were at least not racist, though they were demonic possessed and don’t eat kosher.
The reality of little known world history is the patterns being instigated and practiced in USA after the coup d’etat of the rigged and stolen election by international billionaire oligarch deep staters and their treasonous co-conspirator stooges in US government and media in the USA.
Last night I saw this video from lawyer Alan Dershowitz: Anti Trump law group employs Mccarthyite threats against lawyers who would rep Trump. https://www.youtube.com/live/lng1bG5TvPA?si=M22JACFIXmnkgEQp
Dan’s warning to us of what can and is happening in USA is like being hit over the head with a padded sledgehammer if you have any sense of where we are and where we are heading.
TruthLaser says
Not racist? Throughout Chinese history those not Chinese were treated as inferior barbarians. Today, the Chinese agents in Africa have made that impression on Africans.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Yes, they are the most racist.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, they’ve been doing that for decades. They tend to mistreat black African employees. I always laugh when I read about those black guys getting pushed too far and then going off on the CCP tards and slaughtering them. They were pretty imaginative in the ways they killed them.
Perry Bonney says
Wow. And I had thought that I was already pretty well versed in the atrocities of Communism, my wife being from Cambodia.
A Rasmussen Reports poll recently revealed that 27% of Democrats would like to see Trump dead. (I can only imagine the celebration, by the left, when he passes, and Bush 43, too.)
Goes to show everyone that we can’t afford the left to ever get total power. Without checks and balances, the left becomes a killing machine, and worse. The left obviously hasn’t changed from the days when that sense of the word “left” came into existence just before the French revolution.
It’s in their DNA.
cat says
No, Bush is cool because he hugged Michelle Obama. In the photos, Bush looked ecstatic while doing so. And we didn’t know he swung that way.
pie says
wow, what an eye opening article. interesting the chinese famine was self inflicted. sounds like the “ccp” meant to promote “communist cannibal party”? ccp has a whole new meaning now. any idea how many “closet cannibal” we have in the usa? oooo, like that too “closet cannibal party” . that moniker should raise some history hairs. more appalling by the last date of occurrence 1968, could very well have the cannibals among us. the preferential taste for human flesh must be acquired. i know there are some groups who practice mock human flesh consumption. kathy griffin with the trump head comes to mind. someone should ask her “some reason you have that head in your hand”? someone please notify trump, deport the cannibals as well.
cat says
Some migrants DO eat cats and dogs (Obama or the ghost writer wrote in one of his books that Obama ate a dog). Where are the 325 K missing children, btw?
pie says
good point. the missing children may have been eaten. maybe that is the whole epstein, diddy participant list cover-up. practicing cannibals with preference for tender young child parts. i have seen some chatter about a huge child trafficking ring in the usa. no doubt child trafficking includes the appetites of cannibals. found these people doing business. warning graphic,
https://steemit.com/greatawakening/@artistiquejewels/have-you-heard-of-this-cannibal-restaurant-they-make-no-bones-about-what-they-are-doing
GregMan says
“While word of it reached America early on, American leftists refused to believe it”
When have they ever believed the truth about the horrors of communism? Stalin’s Gulag, Alger Hiss and the communist infiltration of the federal government, the Ukrainian famine, China’s Cultural Revolution… One thing you can always count on is that the left will always take the side of the communists and ignore the truth.
Daniel Greenfield says
One word: complicity.
PatriotLiz says
Communism and Jihad terrorists share similar atrocities.
Inside every violent Leftist is a cannibal screaming to get out.
Currently they release their demonic horrors on aborted babies and selling their body parts.
Daniel Greenfield says
“Inside every violent Leftist is a cannibal screaming to get out.”
I like that
Algorithmic Analyst says
That’s a good line Liz !!!
Peter Arnone says
Let’s call Mao and his disciples to this day for what they are: “Diabolical.” Likewise, let’s call Democrats who support the mutilation and amputation of body parts of innocent children to appease transgender activists, “Diabolical.”
cat says
Note to self: cancel trip to China. &Chinese food.
We know the Chinese eat monkey meat. We have all seen the video of that woman eating a living bird. So, when your sensibilities for eating rule out absolutely nothing, reach out and munch someone.
I can envision college students rioting in support of eating people. How much further is that from cheering on rape-murder, burning families and beheading babies – all for the cause? (these are the same students that needed a cocoa and teddy bear in a safe space if someone misgendered them, but that was last year’s fashion).
Jeff Bargholz says
My Camaroonian ex “girlfriend” loves to eat monkeys. She has her mother send her over some on a regular basis. I used to call her “monkey eater” but she didn’t even care. I never kissed her.
TruthLaser says
Totalitarian rule is cannibalistic in nature. It requires human sacrifice as a method of ruling. Cannibalism (notice the sound of nibbie-ism) was already happening during the long civil war in China before Mao captured the mainland in 1949. Landlords were a menu item compatible with ideology. Children, but who is counting?
danknight says
Never heard of this.
It’s amazing how … no matter how much I know about Leftist atrocities …
There’s always something worse.
It’s been over 45 years since I read Gulag Archipelago … and for years I learned about another new atrocity every year …
… and then every few months …
… then weeks …
Now it’s days.
If zombies come down my lonely rural Texas road looking for MAGA flesh …
I will not be surprised.
Curt says
As a college student in the 1980s I witnessed early Chinese students attending US universities. At the time I didn’t realize that they had to be thoroughly vetted and ideologically pure to the CCP. The same standard can be applied to American teachers traveling repeatedly to the PRC.
Goro says
you think Gov. Walz ever ate anybody?
Madeline Brooks says
Check out Anthony Burgess’ “The Wanting Seed” about cannibalism in a future UK gone crazy socialist, and kind of starving. Even fancy Brits accepted it as totally normal. The Catholic Church too. Socialism breaks down all moral barriers.