How To Stand On Mao's Right
Harrowing excerpts about the Chinese Cultural Revolution from "The Man On Mao's Right" by Ji Chaozhu and their parallels to the modern American left
Comrades: We are all on Mao’s right, so we are counterrevolutionaries who must be denounced in struggle sessions.
Ji Chaozhu witnessed in graphic detail the birth of Communist China and its violent spasms. Born in 1929, he was forced to flee China as a boy to escape the Japanese invasion. He attended high school at Horace Mann in New York City and colleg…