The Ancient Regime

The ancient regime I was in Shanghai once during the cultural revolution everyone mostly young people wore the same grey clothes half military cut, not a colour in sight except for the flag. And the book they gave everyone called “Mao´s little red book.” where words the new China was printed, those who argued had to confess in public and sent to a camp, or farm this to learn to be a worker. Of course, in this socialist paradise, we were not allowed to go ashore and the was a guard by the gangway to be sure we didn´t run away. It didn´t strike anyone; it was the last thing we would do. It couldn´t last slowly colours crept in, and women dressed even if grey dresses, with feminist style Today China is a state capitalist country and is doing very well, thanks to American outsourcing (wages) making the Midwest into a wasteland.