• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 days ago

    I’m not sure Mao was anti-intellectual… The Great Leap Forward was meant to industrialize China in a short period of time, and to do that, he thought he needed to force a bunch of intellectuals to start farming and shit.

    Pol Pot was 100% anti-intellectual