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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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Mao's Darwinist Tyranny

The theory of evolution is closely related to all the disasters Mao
brought upon China. As we have seen, the great famine of 1958-61 re-
sulted from the application of Lysenko's model of "evolutionist science."
Meanwhile, Mao and the Communist establishment ruled China with
terrible cruelty and mercilessness. What kind of horrifying thinking lies
behind a policy that deliberately leaves people to starve and forces them
into cannibalism?
No doubt this relates to the whole Communist view of human na-
ture. Earlier, the idea that human beings are animals lay at the basis of
Soviet terror, and the same applies to China was mentioned. With
Darwinist prejudice, Mao viewed those opposed to Communism as "an-
imals" and so, Maoists were not at all touched by the anguish of people
they regarded as a herd. To them, this was a logical, normal operation of
nature. After revealing how low harvest levels had fallen in the Great
Leap, The Black Book of Communism gives Mao's view in this regard:
Mao, in the tradition of Chinese leaders, but in contradiction to the legend
that he encouraged to grow up around him, showed here how little he re-
ally cared for what he thought of as the clumsy and primitive peasants. 86
James Reeve Pusey also stresses Mao's Darwinist philosophy: "The
thought of Mao Tse-tung was and remains a powerful mixture of
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Darwinian ironies and contradictions." Elsewhere, he writes:
Mao Tse-tung in an angry moment (as late as 1964) swore that "all demons
shall be annihilated." He dehumanized his enemies, partly in traditional
hyperbole, partly in Social Darwinian "realism." Like the Anarchists, he
saw reactionaries as evolutionary throwbacks, who deserved extinction.
The people's enemies were non-people, and they did not deserve to be
treated as people. 88
Whoever views humans as animals has no qualms about perform-
ing experiments on them. During the Great Leap, new ways of nutrition
were considered and mercilessly tested on people who were starving:
In 1960, after one year of famine, ...the survivors were reduced to search-
ing through horse manure for undigested grains of wheat and eating the
worms they found in cowpats. People in the camps were used as guinea
pigs in hunger experiments. In one case flour was mixed with 30 percent