Re W/204/Brian Richard Allen RE #7:

1) “”Yes, Mao. The fount of wisdom, goodness, compassion. Who had syphilis and and said “I clean myself off in the ‘women’ I’m with.” “”
2) “[...] Women? Hardly likely! More often than not little girls — and small boys. [...]”

* Yes, and after the war, when enjoying the tranquility of his luminous chairmanship, mister Mao used to order groups of young women/ girls for extended, sexual gymnastic parties – yes, and chairman Mao had a personal hygiene problem, including a truly awful, crocodile breath.
And since here, remember “Chairman Mao Dances” interlude from “Nixon In China”? (John Adams/ Peter Sallars)? That’s a neat piece, yet I always found it a bit unsettling – probably that music & ballet unconsciously connects me to some readings about the enormous monstrosity that the Cultural Revolution was.

* And coming to my earlier question regarding Anita Dunn’s choice of political & strategy guiding light:
Why Mao of all the offerings on the shelf? While his success was unquestionable, the quotation in cause has no quotable value whatsoever – any fortune cookie would do it better.
Again, she could have found countless other lines to riff upon, from Marcus Aurelius to saint Augustin to… Yogi Bera, you name them.

Yet Dunn didn’t resist her impulse to seek & forward inspirational messages in other place than the 60-s/70-s lefty hagiography – and her choice, when seen in the larger context of Obama’s cabinet confirms a worrisome pattern.
The Americans didn’t vote last year for a revolution – yet the words and the ways of Obama and his crew show that they see themselves as something like Lenin and his acolytes returning to Russia in 1917 -

No good -