Nelson Mandela is deified everywhere. But typically missing is an account of his early years, when he insisted that Marxism be responsive to South African conditions.
From the wreckage The squat, square buildings of the Schiphol Judicial Complex occupy an unremarkable corner of a nondescript industrial estate near Amsterdam’s airport. This drab landscape of grey car parks and concrete under a leaden sky provides a strange backdrop to the dramatic, highly unusual court case I’ve come to see. The trial of four men accused […]
“If there was anything Mao wouldn’t want to see, it was tears. Mao said on one occasion, ‘I can’t bear to see poor people cry. When I see their tears, I can’t hold back my own.’ “Another thing which upset Mao was bloodshed.” From Mao Zedong: Man, Not God by Quan Yanchi11.These observations should not be taken on trust. The author, a loyal hack of the official Chinese Writers’