A Revolution Is Not A Dinner Party, Nor Is It Doing Embroidery

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Editor's note: Guest blogger Jiang Qing has been called the last hardliner in the Chinese Communist Party.  According to her resume, she's the director in chief of Public Security Bureau Detention Centers, the system of prisons used to detain Chinese dissidents.  She's also chair of the Hospitality Committee for the Beijing Summer Olympics.  We publish her post in the spirit of open discussion and debate.

I salute Comrade Phil for tapping into the cubicle rage that's growing across America.  Allow me to quote his blogging:

The wealthy through foundations and nonprofits manage social change via inputs, outputs, outcomes and petty rules and management hierarchies that denature a potentially revolutionary social movement of the disenfranchised into a well managed and non-threatening project to assist the disadvantaged upon their release from the State Pen. …

Could it be that philanthropy is ... the expression of a managerial tradition, of a capitalist, and technocratic, rather than moral tradition? I could give you 1,000 links to 100 philanthropy or giving blogs that would make this obvious to the point of tedium and despair.  All technocrats, all managerial wannabes.  Hot for their MBA, talking among themselves about how to be better social investors, more venturesome, more businesslike, more capable as a manager, more accountable to capital, and so gain an upward career path, with the full approval of Board, investors, wealthy donors.

Mr. Phil understands that where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish of itself.  Domestic foundation executives will never take their defeat, they cannot be reconciled, they will fight to the last ditch!  After peace and order are established throughout the country they will still engage in sabotage activities and create disturbances in a variety of ways.  In no case should we relax our vigilance.

Although Mr. Phil is himself a capitalist lackey Morals Tutor to America's Wealthiest Families, I have spoken with comrades and obtained for him role as People’s Internet Use Monitor in post-revolutionary America:

In solidarity with the housekeepers who clean Mr. Phil's office,  ¡Viva la revolución!

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Editor's note: To create the revolutionary slogans, excerpts from Quotations From Chairman Mao Tsetung (a.k.a. Mao's Little Red Book) were translated from English into Chinese and then back again using the beta version of Google Translate.  The photograph is of an actual Cuban Internet monitor (source: New York Times).

Comments

[archy]

not to point fingers, but somebody has pinked the old fucker up.

remember:

1 - old people have a stringy texture, like wood, but babies are like lamb

2 - a geezer's tainted spirit craves a fresher vessel

[Albert]

Phil thinks and writes well in any color. I'd lose the hat.

[uncle caca]

yes, we count the old skilled fucker as a friend. (he counts us, too -- late nights in the pantry as we shrink from the light.)

in other news, every day brings its little surprises. for instance, i did not know this:

A relationship with a word we know well is disguised in the word geezer. A clue to this relationship is found in British dialect. The English Dialect Dictionary defines geezer as "a queer character, a strangely-acting person," and refers the reader to guiser, "a mummer, masquerader." The citations for guiser refer to practices such as the following: "People, usually children ... go about on Christmas Eve, singing, wearing masks, or otherwise disguised," the last word of this passage being the one to which geezer is related.

so much is wonderful, is it not?

[Albert]

The name fits, age giving folly the guise of wisdom, a claque of effete liberal arts majors making a show of dancing around some bust of Aristotle. The tradition that Phil represents is so 400 B.C.E.

[ikorush sikorsky]

It is not the same since glasnost, fall of, etc. Low-cost monitoring must be done in person, not as with machines in USA. The woman is suspicious ex-girlfriend of man in white shirt, and most likely does not have MLS, yet. Otherwise would be at reference desk. Such is life in a small country. It makes so obvious.

[Albert]

Cuba is a poor country. It'll be years before it achieves the kind of self-censorship we have in the U.S.

[RichD]

I don't understand...I get the bit about the hat but the rest is just too funny to make sense

[Albert]

Jiang Qing's post was a bit of a Rorschach inkblot, so I'm not surprised the commenters are free associating. I stopped making sense long before I met you, in case you were wondering.