“My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.” FatherParentBornSecurityRevolutionChinaTraumaTaiwan Author:Ang Lee
“If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.” IfsMenShouldWarEndsCountryWould BeEnemyHe ManRevolutionIndiaChinaEsteemBeatenEnglishmen Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.” ShouldHeavenForgetHappenedRevolutionVictimChinaDisasterFallenTortureRepeatsFollyMuseumsInhumanProletariat Author:Ba Jin
“People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place. It was the people taking power into their own hands. Now that is what you mean by democracy if you take it to the full swing.” PeopleIfsMeanHandsDemocracySawsRevolutionChinaExtremesInstanceSwings Author:Donald Tsang
“Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.” WorldMayLongCountryStuffMillionsGrowingRevolutionIndiaEnglandBlueChinaJapanSubstitutesArticlesMexicoOther CountriesCoalFossilsAnnualsCrimsonIndigo Author:August Wilhelm von Hofmann
“For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule.” IfsWorldYearsLongHas BeensAmericaTermHalfEconomicRevolutionPerspectiveEuropeIndiaChinaGoldenLong TermExceptionDominanceNorth AmericaOutputIndustrial RevolutionChina And IndiaGolden Years Author:Paul Achleitner
“Why are oil prices so low? First, energy consumption growth rates in developing markets have decreased. This is particularly noticeable in China. Second, new technologies are being developed and the shale gas revolution in the USA has taken place” FirstsEnergyGrowthTechnologyTakenRevolutionLowsRateChinaOilDevelopingUsaGasConsumptionNew TechnologyOil PriceEnergy Consumption Author:Kenneth Rogoff
“The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of societies run by and for the working class in the two great communist revolutions in Russia and China.” HumansHas BeensTwoFactsRunningClassCenturyEventsRevolutionCapitalismHistoricalChinaRussiaCommunistEstablishmentWorking ClassHuman HistoryTwentieth CenturyHistorical Events Author:Grover Furr
“Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?” FirstsDoePovertyRevolutionThirdsFingersChinaMessBellyPointingForeignersFaminePointing Fingers Author:Xi Jinping
“When you brought the Industrial Revolution in, all of a sudden India and China went from being the dominant global powers to being powers dominated by those who understood how to apply this new technology.” TechnologyRevolutionUnderstoodIndiaChinaDominantNew TechnologyIndustrial Revolution Author:Juan Enriquez
“Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or "Umbrella" or whatever "revolutions", some more coups, "regime changes", direct invasions, bombing, propaganda warfare against China, Russia, Iran, South Africa and what is left of the Latin American revolutions. There would be plenty of torture in "secret centers", but it would not be as advertised and glorified as it would be if [Donald] Trump were elected.” IfsWorldHappensWould BeLeftSecretColorRevolutionTrumpDirectClintonSouthChinaRussiaPlentyPropagandaTortureIranLatinRegimesSouth AfricaWarfarePresidencyExceptionalInvasionLatin AmericaBombingAmerican RevolutionUmbrellaCoupsLatin AmericanSponsorshipRegime Change Author:Andre Vltchek
“In 1925 - 27 the revolution in China was destroyed by the false revolutionary strategy of the Stalinist faction. To this last question I consecrate my book, Problems of the Chinese Revolution (issued by the Pioneer Publishers, New York 1932).” BookProblemLastsNew YorkRevolutionStrategyChinaDestroyedChineseRevolutionaryPublishersPioneersFactionsChinese Revolution Author:Leon Trotsky
“The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.” YearsDifferentRevolutionYears AgoTwentiesChinaIndustrial Revolution Author:Ai Weiwei
“So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism, but he had made an erroneous assessment of China's actual situation. In the first place, the targets of the revolution were wrongly defined, which led to the effort to ferret out "capitalist roaders in power in the Party". Blows were dealt at leading cadres at all levels who had made contributions to the revolution and had practical experience, including Comrade Liu Shaoqi.” FirstsMadeOrderLevelsPartyEffortSituationRevolutionCapitalismConcernedIncludingBlowChinaPracticalsDefinedContributionTargetCapitalistChairmanRestorationAssessmentComradeMaoAvertFerretsChairman MaoCadrePractical Experience Author:Deng Xiaoping
“Every time I say the word capitalism, everyone just assumes I have plenty of Marxism in me, I do. But Russia and China had their bloody revolutions and even while they were Communist, they had the same idea about generating wealth - tear it out of the bowels of the earth. And now they have come out with the same idea in the end... you know, capitalism. But capitalism will fail, too.” KnowsIdeasEndsEarthWealthFailingTearsRevolutionCapitalismAssumingChinaRussiaPlentyCommunistBloodyMarxismBowels Author:Arundhati Roy
“Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, not just that China and Russia, after all that revolution, have become capitalist economies, not just that the working class has been ruined in the United States and its unions dismantled, not just that Greece has been brought to its knees, or that Cuba will soon be assimilated into the free market - it is also that the language of the Left, the discourse of the Left, has been marginalised and is sought to be eradicated.” PeopleHas BeensStatesTodayLeftLanguageUnitedClassMillionsUnited StatesEconomyRevolutionTragedyUnionsIraqChinaRussiaKneesIranCommunistAfghanistanVietnamCapitalistSocialistWorking ClassDiscourseRuinedFree MarketGreeceIndonesiaCubaCapitalist Economy Author:Arundhati Roy
“One of the great famines in human history took place during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. [At the same time] Western journalists were reporting how marvelously Chinese society was working. We know so little [about what happens in China].” KnowsHumansLittlesHappensRevolutionWesternChinaChineseJournalistHuman HistoryFamine Author:George Friedman
“China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.” IfsKnowsAmericaRevolutionChinaAspirationRegimesCapsGreenhousesGreenhouse Gases Author:James Lovelock
“Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are “poor and blank”. This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for changes, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written; the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.” PeopleGivingMayCharacterRealitySeemsActionBeautifulDesirePoorPovertyMillionsWrittenRevolutionPaperMarkGood ThingsChinaSocialismCommunismCharacteristicsBad ThingsBlankSheetsOutstandingBeautiful Picture Author:Mao Zedong
“After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in China. The first is internal, that is, the contradiction between the working class and the bourgeoisie. The second is external, which is the contradiction between China and the imperialist countries. Consequently, after the victory of the people's democratic revolution, the state power of the people's republic under the leadership of the working class must not be weakened but must be strengthened.” PeopleFirstsStillsTwoCountryStatesProblemClassLandRevolutionVictorySolutionsDemocraticChinaSocialismCommunismChineseContradictionInternalsRepublicWorking ClassBourgeoisieChinese Revolution Author:Mao Zedong