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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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...Marxism converted intellectuals—but intellectuals who were already
converted to Darwinism. If the intellectual Marxists were the "prescient,"
the hsien chich hsien chueh, who awakened the masses, China's earlier
Social Darwinists, Yen Fu, Liang Ch'i-ch'ao, Sun Yat-sen, Li Shih-tseng,
Wu Chih-hui, were the "prescient" who awakened the Marxists....
The question remains, "In fitting China for Marxism and the Thought of
Mao Tse-tung, what did Darwin do to China?" This question must be
asked. 76
His analysis clearly shows how Darwinism became the basis of
Chinese Communism. For thousands of years, China had been an iso-
lated empire. In a matter of ten years it became Red China, and the mo-
tive power behind this change in thinking was Darwinism.

But what did Darwinism do to prepare China for Maoism?

How did Mao Become a Communist?

Up to now, we've examined the change in ideas that prepared
China for Maoism. But a personal dimension of this also needs to be ex-
amined: Mao himself.
Mao Tse-tung was born in 1893 to a family in a southern China vil-
lage. From his childhood he always wanted to see Beijing and imagined
living there. At age fifteen, he began to read young people's magazines
published in the capital, and especially liked New Youth, a publication
of the New Culture movement. This magazine was filled with articles by
Darwinist ideologues such as Yen Fu and Ting Wen-chiang.
In 1918, Mao visited the city he always wanted to see. There he
made friends with Yang Changzhi, a teacher from Beijing University
who recognized the young man's talent and got him a job at the univer-
sity library. Mao began his job of cataloguing and dusting the books and
cleaning the rooms. He became friends with Li Dazhao, the director of
the library, whose articles in New Youth he had read and liked. Li
Dazhao had Communist ideas; for this reason, the university library be-
came known as the Red Room. Chinese Communist theoreticians often
met there, where Mao heard the names of Marx, Engels and Lenin for
the first time.