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To: koan who wrote (15091)	4/13/2012 8:10:11 PM
From: TopCat	1 Recommendation Respond to of 85487

"A dog is a mammal, but a mammal is not necessarily a dog." Profound...LOL

To: koan who wrote (15091)	4/13/2012 10:29:26 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Mao was logical, he wanted power and took it. His problem was his values. Sartre, one of koan's beloved existentialists, loved Mao. Along with many other leftist dictators. In 1970 Sartre was arrested because of selling on the streets the forbidden Maoist paper La cause du peuple. Sartre was familair with the though of Mao Tse-tung and he had traveled in China in 1955 with Beauvoir, who decided to write a whole book about the country. However, in the early 1960s the Cuban economic and social revolution fascinated Sartre more. He also met Fidel Castro, but broke with his dictatorship later. In 1974 Sartre visited the terrorist Andreas Baader at the prison of Stammheim in Germany. kirjasto.sci.fi Sartre didn't end his support for the USSR till after Stalin died. ... Sartre charted the eventual fate of all Progressives, that of falling in love with humanity's greatest villain, Mao Tse Tung; to carry on a secret passion for the unapologetic tyranny and homicidal mania of Mao. Mao Tse Tung made even Joseph Stalin look like an amateur of evil. Mao's "great leap forward" far surpassed the death rate of Stalin's purges. Even the madmen of Cambodia and North Korea, Pol Pot and Kim Jong Il, tried to surpass Mao's body count, but … well … I guess the human race can withstand just so much Progressive achievement … even Communists had to put a stop to Pol Pot's Progress … however, they wouldn't kill him. He lived out the rest of his life safely in Communist China, perhaps with Mao's blessings for making such Communist Progress. The eventual act of all such Progress, of course, is suicide. Once a Progressive aborts the hell of responsibility for "others", as Sartre called them, and then, like Osama bin Laden trains his compatriots to die while blowing bombs or crashing planes into "other people", and after that, of course, when humanity becomes fed up with such a concept of Progress, he, the King of Ultimate Progress will commit suicide … thank God. Thank Marx and Mao for intellectual prophets such as Jean Paul Sartre. They pursue their ideologies beyond the absurd and, in Sartre's case, point the way to their own destiny which, as Sartre's philosophic competitor, Albert Camus, pointed out, is the "only real philosophic question, suicide". .... enterstageright.com