Marxism For Dummies 15

The Chinese tend to take the long-term view. They do things differently in Old Cathay. A thousand decades, almost to the day, have come and gone. There’s really nothing new. While foreigners fixate on Fu Manchu, The Eastern mind sees things another way. While we pervert, prevaricate, parlay, the “chink” prefers to chew, review, construe. “Since Revolution’s what you like to do,” some western wag asked Mao in sixty-two, what of the French?” (Vendée, Charlotte Corday, the sans-culottes, et cetera.) “Your view? A triumph, or disaster?” Like Sun-Tzu, Tse Tung replied, “It’s far too soon to say.”