Communist propagand versus truth
“Not to digress too much, but the “commies killed kungfu” tale is oversimplified. Honestly, do you think government officials cared about that? It was about politics - those kungfu people that opposed PRC were oppressed, but those that aligned with PRC endured”
This is not true. Comummunism exterminated kungfu for 2 reasons: First to simply eliminate all other organizations, no matter what they were, because simply other social organizations are a threat to having one totalitarian organization. Even a simple martial arts club is a threat. There is no alliance, just the government and all else is to be exterminated. There simple is a government org now, for the purposes of promoting nationalism externally and internally and of course to get money from foreigners, it is a big cash cow, along with tourism.
Second reason was to exterminate the past, all of it, to kill all links with outside world and to kill all TRADITIONAL CHINESE culture in order to kill all threats of influence to the communist party, so that the party will be the only infuence in a person’s life. During the cultural revolution simply practicing kungfu, you were the enemy, there was no alliance to join, and some who refused to stop had their leg tendons cut
“And kungfu still prevails, for the most part.”
kungfu prevails for the most part because it has been preserved OUTSIDE of china NOT inside.
“The CR was terrible and horrible atrocities were committed against places like Shaolin, but just like Nazism, we must understand the origin. The evils were a result of suffering that preceded it.”
Mao and the surviving members of the communist party were the only origins of the cultural revolution. The cultural revolution was engineered by Mao and his chief of Secret police, Kang Sheng, in order to get rid of Mao’s political enemies WITHIN the communist part. The popular disruption stirred up by Mao was a smokescreen meant to disrupt the power of the ordinary police force and the army. Under this cover of disturbance Kang Sheng arrested and executed 100’s of thousands of high-ranking communist memmeber ending with the assination of Lin Biao and his wife in Shanghai. The next day Mao annonce that Lin Biao had crashed in an airplane “trying to escape” China (“shot while trying to escape” - sound familiar?). A short time later Mao annnounced that the CR was over , adding that some people’s heads “had become too swollen”, failing to mention all of those others who lost theirs 
. The suffering that preceded was during and was after the CR was Mao and the communist party.
“But ultimately, Darwin prevails. It doesn’t really matter what it is called - what works will thrive.”
The communist part keeps Wushu artifically alive for its own purposes of fostering amoung which are fostering nationalism and hatred of other peoples and countries.
When communism dies we will really see what will endure and what will die. We will seee what Darwin will select, an artifically pumped up art or an art maintained all over the world by many countries and individuals, in itself and for itself.
Gene, you parrot communist govenment propaganda quite well, yet i think you really don’t know nor care whether the CCP is a jellyfish or a the curse of the mummy. You just think that somehow you are defending CHINA an The CHINESE PEOPLE and YOURSELF. None of these things are the CCP, and you cannot be a mainland chinese person, no matter what you do, you already “know too much”, no one can go back to naivity although you do try hard. You should accept that you are not chinese but a human being like the rest of us.
CCP TV says " Our party, our people, our china, our chinese". they try to put all these things as one so that people can’t separate them and think critically. So any critical thought just results in a nationalistic response. Therefore no growth. The key to freedom is to DIFFERENTIATE. What i am, what im not. This leads to critical thought and questioning alternatives - poison for dictatorships.
No matter how many medals China wins at the Olympics, it doesn’t give YOU any glory whatsoever in the real world, only in your own delusion (which it obviously does).
[This message was edited by stumblefist on 08-17-01 at 09:48 AM.]
