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[–] Rom@hexbear.net 68 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Maoist uprising against the landlords was the most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, leading to almost totally equal redistribution of the land amongst the peasantry.

[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Is this quote from something? I can’t seem to find anything other than a Reddit post.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

It's a paraphrase of a quote that used to be on Wikipedia

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

I think it's paraphrased from elsewhere. When I search "The Maoist uprising against the landlords" with the quotation marks I get mostly Hexbear results

[–] Dirt_Possum@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Been 2 months since wombat last said "the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry" ooooooooooooooh

[–] Dirt_Possum@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Well now Wombat has others well trained to recite the lines when necessary, as we see exemplified by Rom at the top of this thread, so Wombat is able to take vacations.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I didn't know that's where it came from but I'm happy to carry on the posting legacy rat-salute

Death to landlords mao-shining

[–] GamersOfTheWorld@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] Dirt_Possum@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My bad. Corrected, thanks for pointing it out.

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

at least we're still receiving the date

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Probably originates from chapo

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

https://hexbear.net/post/235227

I posted the full quote here once.

Part of Mao Zedong's land reform during the late phase of the Chinese Civil War and the early People's Republic of China was a campaign of mass killings of landlords in order to redistribute land to the peasant class and landless workers which resulted in millions of deaths. Those who were killed were targeted on the basis of class rather than ethnicity except for certain provinces where it was an ethnic conflict against minority ethnicities, therefore terming the campaign a "genocide" is incorrect and the neologism "classicide" is more accurate. Class-motivated mass killings continued almost throughout the 30 years of social and economic transformation in Maoist China. Harry Wu claims that 85- 90% of the 15 million members of the landlord class did not survive in China because large numbers of them fled overseas, especially from the south.

Historian Walter Scheidel notes that the violence of the land reform campaign had a significant impact on economic inequality. He gives as an example the village of Zhangzhuangcun, made famous by Hinton's book Fanshen: In Zhangzhuangcun, in the more thoroughly reformed north of the country, most "landlords" and "rich peasants" had lost all their land and often their lives or had fled. All formerly landless workers had received land, which eliminated this category altogether. As a result, "middling peasants," who now accounted for 90 percent of the village population, owned 90.8 percent of the land, as close to perfect equality as one could possibly hope for.

The original source is this: Hinton's book Fanshen: In Zhangzhuangcun.