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The worst of it is that this won't just be attacks from the opposite side. Right now, the Labour Party itself is trying to pin down its historical destiny – is it a party of social revolution and protest? Or of C of E-style moderation and consensual government? Already split down the middle, there is the potential for the many enemies of the Corbyn project to use the political incorrectness of Mao to blow it up by tying it in semantic knots. You won't find many people who think that Mao did a really great job killing all of those people, but the moment you start to find people who agree with "at least some of his basic principles", you're heading down the slippery slope to philosophical oblivion. The same wave of new leftists who are so historically sensitive they want to dig up the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University for being a bit of a racist/imperialist will have a hard time justifying why they're even one percent in-line with the 20th century's genocide scoreboard leader.For all the misery about to be heaped on his head, McDonnell has done little wrong except grossly misunderestimate the stupidity of the human race. Perhaps that basic idealism says a lot about the saintly naivety of the Corbyn project, about why it is still being out-played and out-maneouvred back in reality.If only he'd read more closely from the Little Red Book of the original Chairman Of The Lolitburo: "When you point a finger at the moon to indicate the moon, instead of looking at the moon, the stupid ones look at your finger."On Noisey: Stormzy & Muzi – From South London to South Africa
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