MAURO GIA SAMONTE
MAURO GIA SAMONTE

The phrase is a Mao Tse Tung original. It was uttered by the Chinese leader during the cultural revolution in China in the mid-sixties when he sensed a strong current of challenge from what he perceived to be high-placed communist leaders inclined to bourgeois ideas – and evidently out to oust him. Closing down schools, Mao, with the help of his War Minister Lin Piao, organized the students in their awesome thousands into the Red Guards who began the Mao personality cult under the singular call for the purge of the “revisionists” in the Communist leadership of China in the pretext of: “Let a hundred flowers bloom: let a hundred schools of thought contend!”

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