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The Chinese Communist Revolution, which aimed to liberate the Chinese majority from the oppressive bourgeoisie, took place between 1945 and 1950. Having spearheaded the revolution, the founding father of modern China- Mao ZeDong was worried that the revolution did no more than replace old elites with new ones; that the pre-revolution bourgeoisie elements were gradually infiltrating the government & society at large- aiming to restore capitalism; and that only a revolution of culture would unseat and unsettle the ruling class and keep China in a state of perpetual revolution which, theoretically, would serve the interests of the majority, rather than a tiny privileged elite. As a result, Mao launched the cultural revolution in 1966. As opposed to the initial 1945-50 revolution which merely kept the Chinese bourgeoisie at bay for a period (1950-66), the cultural revolution was effectively gradual, planting the seeds required to disenable the imminent return of the bourgeoisie. Occ...

A married man who served two terms as state governor and has since been in the Senate and is one of the "leaders of Nigeria" is caught in a sexual romp in a hotel. Even that has degenerated into ethnic and religious warfare, underwritten by cultural alibis. No way to say: what is wrong is wrong; what is bad is bad. Things are never that straightforward in Nigeria. I have told you times without number here that whenever a Nigerian says, "it is our culture", run away from him as fast as you can. He could be rationalizing or justifying genocide and hiding behind culture. I have also recently said that Nigeria is a paradise you shouldn't think of quitting because you will find no other paradise on earth where your outrage immediately earns you a broad confederacy of defenders, explainers, understanders, rationalizers, and justifiers of whatever outrage you inflict on our collective space of agency. Dasuki found his own rationalizers Apostle Sulema...