Re: Why socialism failed...human nature or social/political/economicrela

QUESTION:

Who knows, or knows where to find, facts on political violence during the
Cultural Revolution in China?

The typical western propaganda attributes millions of deaths to
Mao and the Cultural Revolution, when what it seems they're actually
referring to was the period of the Great Leap Forward (around 1960),
when Mao's policies exacerbated a severe famine.  Mao admitted his
mistake, which does not excuse it, but rather settles the question.

What about the 1966-1976 period of the Cultural Revolution?  My
understanding, which may have been wrong to begin with, or superseded by
more recent information, is that very few people were actually killed in
violence associated with this period.

There is evidently a big debate over this and the alleged crimes of other
state socialist countries right now in France, which reminded me to bring
up something I've been wondering about for some time.

Richard Hutchinson