The Morning Star marks the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China with a series of articles by CARLOS MARTINEZ. This week he looks at the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – George Santayana
To many on the left, I am a Nazi. My often severe criticism of then-President Trump (and Jewish heritage) mattered not; the fact that I wouldn’t denounce the entirety of his Presidency, I deserved labeled with hyperbolic labels of white supremacist, insurrectionist, traitor, and other horrible names. As far as I know, Trump nor his supporters never advocated for American world domination, racial superiority of a particular ethnicity, the nationalization of 50 percent of American industry nor incited a World War. That doesn’t stop the left from thinking that border security means concentration camps and that American isolationist policy (ending numerous wars in the process) and American priority in trade means the loss of American soft power. Never mind the complete lack of any empirical evidence that supports their claim, to the modern left, the right is worse than Nazis, Soviets, and t