October 20, 2002
Andrea Harris came across this entry in a home furnishings catalog:
Porcelain fragments from 14th- to 19th-century Ming and Qing Dynasty vases destroyed during China?s Cultural Revolution form the decorative inlaid tops of these silver-plated metal boxes. One-of-a-kind; please allow us to select for you. Imported.
This is a textbook example of the evils of communism. These were vases that were hundreds of years old, and were probably Chinese cultural treasures. Yet the ChiComs in their Maoist inspired frenzy destroyed these priceless objects of beauty because they were artifacts of a "bourgeois society". Any of the Castro butt-kissing idiotarians who fawn over the likes of Castro should look at these things and think about the sort of evil that would destroy such beauty.
For those of you who think that such anger is best reserved for the human victims of Communism, you are right, but also wrong. These pieces of pottery were of great historical and cultural import, but because they did not advance the cause of Communism, they were destroyed and thrown away. It was an attempt at murder of a culture, as brutal and destructive of the human spirit as the physical acts of murder and torture were.
Posted by John Bono at October 20, 2002 05:48 PM | TrackBackYou've gotta love that someone has now based a good capitalist business model on that Communist desecration. Mao would spin in his grave.
Posted by: Ian S. on October 21, 2002 11:29 PMYeah, but I'll bet you the money earned from those imports (imported from where? not Taiwan I am sure) will go straight to the Communist Party. This just looks like another "use the capitalist running dog's methods against him" ruse, even if a petty one.
Posted by: Andrea Harris on October 22, 2002 11:51 PMThis is something to remember when you are told China is an ancient civilization. China is 53 years old.
Posted by: Fred Boness on October 24, 2002 01:22 AMThe destruction of non-communist cultural artifacts in China during the Cultural Revolution is not unlike the destruction of the Buddha statues in Afghanistan by the Taliban. Philistines all...
Posted by: BarCodeKing on October 24, 2002 03:33 AM
