The New York Times is a big fan of communism—according to their latest series of opinion pieces commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the Russian Communist Revolution.
Their latest piece discusses how wonderful it was to be a woman in communist China.
The article, written by Chinese-American columnist Helen Gao, used memories from her grandmother—as well as the official “history” of the Communist Party of China—to paint a rosy picture of women’s equality under communism.
“‘The Communists did many terrible things,’ my grandmother always says at the end of her reminiscences. ‘But they made women’s lives much better.’
That often-repeated dictum sums up the popular perception of Mao Zedong’s legacy regarding women in China. As every Chinese schoolchild learns in history class, the Communists rescued peasant daughters from urban brothels and ushered cloistered wives into factories, liberating them from the oppression of Confucian patriarchy and imperialist threat.
Forty years after Mao’s death, this aspect of his legacy is still understood through his famous pronouncement on gender equality, “Women hold up half the sky.” It is a slogan my grandmother utters in the same breath as the chairman’s other sins and deeds.
For all its flaws, the Communist revolution taught Chinese women to dream big.”
Nowhere in the article, of course, does it mention that Mao Zedong’s disastrous, brutal policies led to the death of 60 million Chinese people—including 45 million in just four years, during his “Great Leap Forward” program that shattered the economy and caused widespread famine.
Nor does it mention that women—along with men—were often forced into backbreaking farm work, whether they liked it or not. A far cry from “dreaming big.”
And it, of course, forgets to say China routinely—to this day—forcibly sterilizes people and forces women to have abortions, to maintain “sustainable” population levels. In 2015, a Chinese woman even sued the Chinese government, after her mandatory sterilization in 2012 left her with many health problems.
However, despite actual, settled history—that Communism made life worse for both men and women—it’s clear that the New York Times would rather continue to push their far-left agenda, regardless of the facts.
AAN Staff
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