{"id":3091,"date":"2023-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gatebizglobal.com\/new-kind-old-madness-direct-threat-all-us\/"},"modified":"2023-07-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T00:00:00","slug":"new-kind-old-madness-direct-threat-all-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatebizglobal.com\/new-kind-old-madness-direct-threat-all-us\/","title":{"rendered":"A new kind of an old madness is a direct threat to all of us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mao Zedong became one of the last century\u2019s most powerful dictators by completely transforming Chinese society through a systematic use of violence, coercion, and aggressive propaganda. His method was so unique \u2013 and ruthlessly effective \u2013 it was codified by historians and political scholars as Maoism.<\/p>\n

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Today, a new kind of Maoism is developing in the American left, and it is a direct threat to the American traditions of individual rights, the rule of law, the Constitution, and personal freedom.<\/p>\n

I was recently reminded how real the threat of renewed Maoism is \u2013 and how little it is understood \u2013 when a Chinese American woman confronted me at a hotel during breakfast.<\/p>\n

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She was so emotional, she was shaking. She said, “you must save America.”<\/p>\n

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Her message resonated with me intellectually and emotionally. As an historian, I have deeply studied Mao and the Chinese Communist dictatorship (see “Trump vs. China,” which I wrote in 2019 with my colleague Claire Christensen).<\/p>\n

The Maoist levels of violence and mass murder have not occurred here (thank God), but the patterns of psychological coercion and propaganda are thriving. Maoist-style groupthink and forced confession and coercion have been spreading through our top universities and the corporate news media for decades. They have recently permeated our governmental bureaucracies, military, and even large American corporations.<\/p>\n

I was especially impacted by the woman\u2019s warning, because I previously spoke with Xi Van Fleet for my podcast Newt\u2019s World. Xi is a survivor from Communist China who played a leading role in standing up to the Loudon County, Va., school board. Board members were committed to teaching propaganda and ignoring parents\u2019 concerns about transgender policies. Xi\u2019s anger and clarity of message earned a great deal of media coverage and helped oppose the school board position. Now, she has a new book coming out in October titled “Mao\u2019s America: A Survivor’s Warning.”<\/p>\n

Dimon wrote, “Our identities are who the usurpers of power say we are, and we get persecuted or rewarded accordingly. \u2026 Maoist identity politics has come to America \u2013 just switch \u2018class\u2019 to \u2018races,\u2019 and things fall into the exact same places.”<\/p>\n

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Mao Tse-Tung, chair of the Chinese Communist Party, on a balcony clapping his hands.\u00a0<\/span> (Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n

As my coauthor Christensen wrote to me, you can see new Maoist patterns in America through the left\u2019s radicalization of youth, destruction of history, and widespread use of propaganda.<\/p>\n

“Recall the objective of Mao\u2019s Cultural Revolution (in addition to eliminating his opposition) and the aim of the Red Guards was to destroy the \u2018four olds:\u2019 old ideas, old customs, old habits, and old culture. Mao made an enemy out of history and tradition,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

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We need to be clear about the nature of this new Maoism with American characteristics \u2013 and take head-on those who use Maoist tactics to dominate our schools, media, bureaucracies, companies, and society.<\/p>\n

Our freedom is at stake.<\/p>\n

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