CHINA CENSORS AMERICAN MAOISTS

I recently discovered an internet rarity – an article defending Mao Zedong – but when I tried to read it, China’s net censorship system intervened to block it.

The material was on the website of the American journal Monthly Review and from there I found out the author’s contact details and asked him to email me a copy.

The net censoring system, however was ahead of the game, and blocked the email attachment, which I found a little too personal and slightly alarming.

Whatever one thinks of Mao, it is interesting that in China – where banknotes still carry his portrait – the views of his American defenders are no longer welcome.