
Socialism, in all its forms, sounds so reasonable, so appealing that for any young person with empathy advocating it is almost instinctive. That was my own past, and that of my mother- and father-in-law, as enthusiastic leftist college students in Beijing. They were actually there cheering in Tiananmen Square in 1949 when Mao Zedong declared the PRC founding to the assembled crowd and the world and jubilantly declaimed: “China has arisen”.… read more “The following story was told to me by someone on Reddit”





